Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace of a brisk walk. And still I was dying. My legs kept wanting to move faster, but my stomach said nay. By the time I got rid of the cramp, my legs were ready for their own work-slowdown. Rhythm is crucial to a marathoner's success. The cramp destroyed mine, and I suffered the rest...
...general believability. His central figures and all who cross their paths are recognizable contemporary types. Most of us have even shared a lot of their fantasies. Their world, however cockeyed, is our world. Without abandoning the private demi-demons that have been the basis of his past comic success, Allen has fashioned broad new connections with his audience. Ironically, his most personal film may turn out to have the widest appeal of all his movies. Richard Schickel...
There are some easily identifiable reasons for McDonald's success, though. One is that in recent years inflation has jacked up the cost of meals eaten at home more than of those eaten out, spurring a growing willingness among Americans to eat almost anything so long as they do not have to cook it themselves. Industry marketing studies indicate that in ten years fully one-half of the nation's food budget will be spent for meals eaten outside the home, v. one-third spent now. McDonald's expects to benefit handsomely from this trend...
...Better success at enlisting supporters in the Boston Common has sparked renewed interest in recruiting in the Square and Cambridge Common out of the Brattle St. office, Barry said...
...same time, over in Gund Hall's Piper Auditorium, boyish Sen. Gary Hart (D.-Colo.) will provide some much needed feedback on President Carter's energy program when he lectures on "Energy and Congress." Hart engineered George McGovern's startling success in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries and triumph at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. After the unsuccessful fall campaign, Hart got going on his own Senate race. He triumphed in 1974 on an environmentalist platform...