Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German fad for the Old West dates back to the 1890s, when Buffalo Bill toured Germany with enormous success. His visit coincided with the popularity of potboilers by Karl May, who wrote Zane Grey-style novels about an Old West he had never seen. Since then, with May's books selling in the millions, Germany has never forgotten its home on the range...
...have carelessly scrambled the reels of a double feature. Some of the training sequences will interest tennis hackers curious to know what it would be like to take lessons from Gonzalez. It must also be said that Dean-Paul Martin, Dino's son, has the contemporary jock style- cool, mean, and yet innocent- down well; he has played some professional tennis and learned something from the experience...
...first bench sitter once worked with a woman named Gracie, the last one with a man named Jackie, and the middle one with Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando. Today, Actors George Burns and Art Carney and Actors Studio Patriarch Lee Strasberg are teamed for Going in Style, now filming in New York City. "It's about three old guys living together on Social Security," explains Burns, who at 83 is the oldest of the trio. "I asked Lee how old he was. He told me 77, so I asked him to get me a glass of water." Burns cracks...
...Chicago bar called the Mirage tavern, gathering notes on building and fire inspectors as they asked for illegal side payments. Street-wise in a machine-dominated city, Editor James Hoge had lawyers meticulously instruct his reporters in how to avoid committing entrapment. In the past, such Front Page-style enterprise has consistently won Pulitzers. As deception, it is not all that different from the confrontation theater that often gives CBS's 60 Minutes its liveliest episodes...
...quite escaped. "Through my professional creations," she once said, "I became, in a sense, my own child." She was not permitted her first romantic screen kiss until 1927, 18 years after she came to the movies. When she cut off her long golden curls and bobbed her hair, flapper-style, a year or so later, it caused a national furor. "You would have thought I murdered someone, and perhaps 1 had, but only to give her successor a chance to live...