Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...players demand it? Cleary, it seems, lost his players' support because he was forcing them to skate too fast. The players prefer to skate leisurely figure eights up and down the ice, never coming anywhere near the boards, and never digging the puck out of the corners. Cleary's style, which demands hard skating and fast, forechecking forwards, contrasted sharply with the expectations of the players...
...last week in rejecting President Ford's nomination of former Congressman Ben B. Blackburn of Georgia to head the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the federal agency responsible for overseeing the savings and loan industry. Blackburn's record during his four terms in Congress was that of an old-style racist--he opposed public housing subsidies, voted against open housing guarantees, and described voting as a privilege rather than a right. Since savings and loan associations make more than half the home mortgage loans nationally, and the Federal Home Loan Board is responsible for setting rules governing lending practices...
...complications that followed broke the dictator's grip on life. Franco's physicians and the Spaniards who gathered outside the Pardo Palace to pray or wait had no doubts about the outcome of the autocrat's last battle. But all agreed that, in high Spanish style, he was waging a heroic fight...
...peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow the bow off the Bounty. For added flavoring, rival chili heads stirred in dried armadilla blood, tequila, beer and, it was reported, marijuana. Singer Kathryn Grayson's "All-American chili" incorporated meatballs, Italian-style. The ingredients used by Girl Scout Troop 256 from Odessa, Texas, were "tender love and affection and a pinch of paprika...
With reasonable security, he has worked on building his repertory selectively. This fall's new works, Excursions, a lusty frontier-style piece, and Mazurka, to Chopin's music, are his most popular premieres since his 1969 ballroom ballet, Intermezzo. Mazurka is technically ferocious. But, says Feld, "with its angular line and hot and cold jazz rhythms, the ballet is like caviar...