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...That neck!) creature who occasionally lounged topless in low-budget epics. She might have been one of a thousand pretty playthings a producer finds on the casting couch and discards when distracted by the next in line. But Loren knew she had something to put on screen besides a spectacular bosom: an actor's passion and skill, a worldly woman's generous, capricious wit. As for Ponti, he had the drive, the devotion and the clout to turn her into a top international star, Her Oscar for Best Actress in 1962, as the ravaged war mother in Vittorio DeSica...
...then added her own goal on a four-on-three before the second period ended. Against the Bobcats, she scored early in the second period to give the Crimson a 2-0 lead. Kessler made her sixth start in net of the season against Princeton and turned in a spectacular performance. She turned away 30 Tiger shots on the night, including 17 in the third period for her third career shutout. Her first came November 25 at Princeton, where she also saved 30 shots. Her other shutout came on December 2, against then-seventh ranked Minnesota-Duluth...
...traffic jam the results are spectacular: an almost continuous blast of horns, deep and tinny, near and far. The bass of a bus mixes with the thin shrieks of a motor scooter. Add in the noise of rasping truck brakes, the sweet tinkle of bicycles and rickshaws, the wailing Bollywood music pumped out by kids in their new cars, the reverberating bangs and cries of touts beating on the sides of buses for business, the siren of an ambulance vainly trying to push its way through the heaving mass and the general, constant growl of traffic and you have...
...Pattman, who averaged 17 points in six games played entering Saturday, to just five points on 1-of-4 shooting before halftime.Pattman, however, came out of the Dartmouth locker room determined to take over the game, and as his aggressiveness increased, the Big Green surged. On a series of spectacular drives, breakaways and long-range hits, Pattman scored 15 points in the second half and seven more in overtime, fueling the Dartmouth comeback from a 12-point halftime deficit.“I’m a second-half player,” Pattman said. “My mother...
...question is whether something could happen in 2007 to drain away this liquidity. For most investors and policymakers, the nightmare scenario remains that of the post-1929 Depression, when a stock-market crash was followed by a spectacular wave of bank failures and a massive monetary meltdown. However, by blaming the Hungry Thirties on blunders by the Federal Reserve, we reassure ourselves that history couldn't repeat itself. Today's central bankers are smarter. But history provides an example of another liquidity crisis that went far beyond what central banks could cope with. Until the last week of July...