Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know about what Rickie Lee calls "extensive education in music at home." Born in Chicago, hard by Wrigley Field, the third child of a couple "in the restaurant business" (which, from the ironic Jones argot, translates as "waiter and waitress"), Rickie Lee had a vagabond childhood. Her parents split up, reunited, drifted from state to state and job to job. Her father sang a lot, wrote his daughter a little tune called The Moon Is Made of Gold ("So don't feel bad because the sun went down/ The moon is made of gold"), which she includes...
...portrait of a typically down-and-out British colonial, the actors do little to help the proceedings. Gazzara is fairly blameless, given his flat role, but the miscasting of his con-man nemesis is a disaster. Had a strong actor played the villain, who recalls Harry Lime in The Third Man, Saint Jack might have had some tension and dramatic heft. Instead, the director has placed himself in the role and then played it tepidly. No doubt it is healthy for Bogdanovich to be adventurous, but, for now, his new directions all appear to be wrong turns...
...Third World War, Hackett...
...unhappy about the timing of Deng Xiaoping's (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) forthcoming visit to Washington in late January. They did not like the idea of Brezhnev preceding Deng and very likely being eclipsed by him. Therefore Gromyko might have been using these eleventh-hour wrangles over third-rate issues as a pretext to postpone the Carter-Brezhnev summit...
...fields contained a total of 180 underground silos, or launchers. One-third of the silos housed SS-19 rockets with multiple warheads; the other two-thirds housed older, less formidable SS-11s with single warheads. By satellite reconnaissance, the U.S. had kept careful count as the Soviets installed the SS-19s into one-third of the D-and-P silos. Nonetheless, officials in Washington?and particularly at the Pentagon? were worried about their future ability to distinguish MIRVed from unMlRVed rockets when mixed together as they were at D-and-P. The reason: except for a telltale domed antenna...