Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Gordon Parks Jr., 44, black photographer and film maker (Super Fly, Thomasine & Bushrod) who followed in the footsteps of his famous father, LIFE Photojournalist and Film Director Gordon Parks; in a plane crash near Nairobi, where he was directing a new film...
...professional football team; by drowning; in the surf off Golden Beach, Fla. Rosenbloom parlayed a small Virginia denim factory into a $175 million-a-year business before buying a share of football's Baltimore Colts in 1953. He saw the Colts win four league championships and the 1971 Super Bowl, in 1972 swapped them for the Rams, who won six consecutive division titles but never a Super Bowl. Gruff and outspoken, he tangled often with league officials, local politicians and coaches but was scrupulously fair to his players, giving them loans and savvy investment counsel...
...course, there were some less than bright spots. Super Series '79, a media extravaganza in the guise of a three-game battle between the Soviet National Team and the best the NHL had to offer, ended in a humiliating 6-0 victory for the poised, tireless, quick-passing rink-rats from Moskva amd environs. Attendance declined notably in some NHL cities, and why Colorado still has a franchise when about 5000 fans show up per game--some by accident, no doubt--remains a mystery...
...their knowledge of current events, school grades and written proposals for solving public problems. Each of them received a $1,500 scholarship plus the free trip to Williamsburg. At the end of this two-day conference, funded by the Shell Oil Company, one will be named a kind of super Century III Leader, and awarded a $10,000 scholarship...
...doesn't look like she's cheating on her lip-reading, she uses sign language like it's her native tongue, she talks in the same eerie high-pitched grunt that deaf people use. In fact, Irving acts handicapped so well that she may have jumped from the super-natural to the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat clinic. "I've gotten lots of scripts for affliction films since the word got out that I do my homework," Irving says...