Word: star
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Star, conference project director, said yesterday professional graduate studies are less contingent upon previous academic experience than Ph.D. programs. Students have to prepare for Ph.D. programs, she said, adding, "They don't even know these programs exist...
Faculty and graduate students, as well as outside professionals, have volunteered to speak and answer questions at the conference. Although organizers expect over 500 people, Star said, its approach will be as individual as we can muster...
...road show is called the "I Love America" rally. The author, producer and star is the Rev. Jerry Falwell, 46, a Baptist out of Lynchburg, Va. Back home, Falwell is the hyperactive founder and director of a religious empire that includes a thriving church, schools and charitable and fund-raising programs. Thanks to his Old-Time Gospel Hour, seen on 324 television stations in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, he is also one of the top stars of the "electric church." All told, his enterprises employ 950 people and have an annual budget of $56 million...
...what they might be seeing was two images of the same quasar. How was this possible? More than half a century ago, scientists realized a bizarre consequence of Einstein's general relativity theory: if a very massive object were located almost directly between the earth and a distant star, its tremendous gravity would act as a "gravitational lens" that could bend the starlight into two different paths. To produce the effect observed at Kitt Peak, the astronomers calculated, a huge galaxy or a black hole at least 10 trillion times as massive as the sun would be required...
...overstuffed with talent that one at first expects an epic of Homeric proportions. As it gradually turns out, Director John Schlesinger has a trifle up his sleeve, not a bombshell: Yanks is nothing more and nothing less than an extravagant soap opera about star-crossed lovers on the British home front during World War II. The results are often entertaining, but only for audiences who are prepared to open their tear ducts and put their brains on hold. Admirers of Schlesinger's weightier efforts-Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday-should trim their sails accordingly...