Word: upping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After six hellish years, a cool arm burns up the heavens
The son of Bob Fouts, former announcer for the San Francisco 49ers, young Dan almost literally grew up on the sidelines, serving the team as ball boy. He tossed footballs with John Brodie, Billy Kilmer and Y.A. Tittle. When Dan signed up for a local Pop Warner team at ten...
As for the Curia, the Pope asked the Cardinals for proposals to improve its efficiency and harmony vis-á-vis the church in various nations. Despite rumors to the contrary, John Paul plans no big shake-up in structure like that by Paul VI in 1967, and he has kept...
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...
Like John Osborne's Angry Young Man of the '50s, the hero of Quadrophenia is named Jimmy. Estranged from his family and bored with his London mailroom job, he has become a member of the mods, a loose, nationwide gang of motorbike dandies that sprang up with the...