Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take over property by eminent domain, is an entirely different proposition. What's more, the opponents of the gym want the state legislature to change a state law to limit the expansion of all academic institutions in Cambridge, and this move seems to have an even smaller chance of success...
...Short Eyes bears all the earmarks of the sleeper movie: a no-name cast that includes professional actors as well as ex-cons, an obviously low budget and an obscure distribution company, the Film League. This film probably would have received more attention eight years ago, when the smashing success of sleepers like Easy Rider and Joe aroused serious doubts as to the future of the big budget, big studio-backed movie. Such doubts have long since faded away as the motion picture industry has reverted to its conventional production methods, and work like Short Eyes must once again swim...
Unwittingly, her struggle to be the perfect woman has led to failure amidst success, as she hears the undertone of hatred in the voices of those who pay her the compliment. At more sanguine moments a feeling continues to haunt her that she deserves the blame for the tragedies that rock her loved ones, for Molly's cerebral palsy, for her older daughter Jane's traffic accident behind the Iron Curtain, for her sister Rosemary's breast cancer...
Olivia starts her album with her first hit, "If Not For You," a song her publicists claim rocketed her to instant international success in 1973. Immediately we are exposed to her breathy style and the tedium of the whole presentation. Like most of her versions of rock standards, "If Not For You" has no depth--there is no attempt to enliven the tune with good bass or percussion...
Pierpont noted the overwhelming success of the fall mini-season was a "great time" and "built up team confidence." She added that the netwomen are prepared to face much tougher competition in the spring, when Ivy League competition begins...