Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that don't translate in this true-to-life context, the whole picture comes across with much more sincerity than the Kesey original. And in this troubling, de-romanticized setting Jack Nicholson's swagger says it all about the type of guys who won't play ball: he's the archetypal sharpy who tries to break the bank before he realizes the house has rigged the table...
...Jeffrey S. Kahn, Harvard Police captain, said yesterday the search is still in its early stages. In such a "long slugging type of case" the present lack of progress is "not at all surprising," Kahn said...
Deffenbaugh added that this type of case is typical is South Africa, although the sentences were unusually harsh. He said their severity was probably due to growing government insecurity as a result of increasing guerrilla activities in the north and the fall of the once-friendly colonial regimes in neighboring Mozambique and Angola...
...always said she liked that best about me." All of which left Adams, now 49 and still a concert and supper-club headliner, feeling wistful. "It's the best thing that ever happened to me," she says of her Muriel job. "If they ever want a Mae West type, I'm ready...
...been artists for four generations-his great-great-grandfather, a funeral mason from Aberdeen in Scotland, helped carve the Albert Memorial in London before settling in Philadelphia in 1868. But Alexander Calder, looking at 78 like a rumpled dugong in a red flannel shirt, belongs to a hallowed American type: the bike-shop genius, cousin to Henry Ford or Wilbur Wright. Except for the big commissions of the past 20 years, his sculpture is still mostly improvisation-tin-snips and pliers stuff, made in his studios in Connecticut and the south of France...