Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday also marks the last time students will be able to turn in ticket coupons at the door. After that, the tickets will have to be obtained in advance at the 60 Boylston ticket office...
...supply contracts when they expire in December. Exxon, Shell and British Petroleum got telex notification from NIOC that their anticipated deliveries for the last three months of 1979 were being cut by approximately 5%. NIOC blamed "operational difficulties," but many oilmen suspected that the missing petroleum would soon enough turn up for sale on the spot market. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia was hinting strongly that early next year it will cut as much as 1 million bbl. a day from its production of 9.5 million bbl., and Kuwait and Nigeria were also considering reductions. These moves will keep supplies scarce...
Though produced by the rock group The Who and named after one of their albums, Quadrophenia is not a concert film. The band members do not appear in the movie as performers but turn up only in the background score and occasional still photographs. Rather than make a safe companion piece to the film version of Tommy, The Who have daringly cross-fertilized American Graffiti with Look Back in Anger...
Directed and Written by Steven Milliard Stern At first it seems that Running might turn out to be that salutary and as yet un realized item, a cautionary tale about a man who lets his passion for jogging run away with him. Michael Andropolis (Michael Douglas) is discovered living in a cold-water flat in one of Manhattan's least appetizing districts, a couple of attempts at a respectable career left behind, his wife and two young daughters abandoned also...
These demons turn out to be not very amusing. Young Michael, it seems, was reared by a family that overstressed winning. He became so afraid of losing that he developed to near-genius level the ability to find excuses for not competing at all. So now Michael does not have to win the big race at the end. All he has to do is run it full out, and if you are actually wondering if he manages to do so, then you had better run right along to Running...