Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AGAIN, THE conventional mind can find a thousand reasons why such an approach will not work. But those with imagination can see that the community corporation idea--linked to an independent source of funds which can supplement and perhaps eventually take the place of anti-poverty funds--is a creative response to our present difficulties...
...firm Evan-Picone, Evans was lounging by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel one day in 1956, when Norma Shearer gave him the eye; she just knew that he was the ideal man to play her late husband, Irving Thalberg, in a movie called The Man of a Thousand Faces. For three years Evans sleepwalked his way through the kind of pretty-boy roles that George Hamilton now gets, then went back to fashions. In 1959, Revlon purchased Evan-Picone in a deal that eventually made Evans rich enough to return to Hollywood as an independent producer for Dick...
Roaring through the council went a $14-million appropriation for new elementary schools. Dickering and petty debate over a matter of two thousand dollars for air conditioning seemed to melt away in the heat of burning cities...
...willing to have his talent used to keep the ghetto quiet. White made a public plea that people who had already bought their tickets return them and watch the show from the safety of their homes. Many did and the total attendance was surprisingly small--somewhere around four thousand...
...audience's nostalgia contributes to the transfiguration. Even college kids, who cannot quite remember the debits and credits of the Kennedy Administration, are moved in memory by the lucency of the thousand days, the bravura of Jack's life and the trauma of his death. Bobby has made it all historic and contemporary at the same time. All at once, the past seems within reach again...