Word: stalwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of those invited were State Department types, journalists and stalwart Chinese and American supporters of the People's Republic. In addition to Vice President Mondale, Secretary of State Vance and Dr. Brzezinski also represented the Carter administration...
...lead seesawed back and forth in the second stanza. Wendy Carle, Harvard's steady all-Ivy stalwart, racked the boards en route to a 14-point (7-18 FG), 15-rebound night. But it was another veteran, senior Hildy Meyers, who sparked the Crimson when the going got rough...
...second team stalwart Fine returns to quarterback the Harvard offense. Glenn led the Ivies in assists last year and Harvard in steals. Fine won the "Mr. Hustle" award at the Motor City Classic last year, and there is no better nickname for the 5-ft. 10-in., 155-pound sparkplug. His aggressive style of play makes him the nucleus of the squad and the darling of Harvard fans, but has also landed him in early foul trouble in the past...
...career. So if the weight of the world hung over Allen when he wrote and directed Interiors, it shows in the film. Interiors is very, very sober: the story chronicles a family's trials and collapse, and the script is filled with heavy dialogue. The father, played by a stalwart but silent E.G. Marshall, severs ties with his compulsive interior decorator-wife (Geraldine Page), breaking up a family that never seemed to be very close. Two daughters--Joey (Mary Beth Hurt), the father's favorite, and Renata (Diane Keaton), the mother's protoge--display tension and jealousy even thicker than...
Through that living voice, living people begin to inhabit the stage: the scribes and Pharisees, hardened by suspicion and orthodoxy; the Disciples, stalwart but muddled; Jesus himself, patient and determined but often exasperated ("Perceive ye not yet, neither understand...