Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took me a long time in the movie before I could even hear what anyone was saying," he said breathlessly after seeing a prerelease screening. "The set was just stunning." The main set is the vast, gleaming city room just outside Bradlee's sleek, glass-walled office. Warner Bros, spent $450,000 to recreate it, right down to the wastebaskets, on their Burbank, Calif., lot; then they had real Washington Post trash shipped west to fill those baskets. The stars were pretty stunning too. Bradlee's young charges were transformed into gorgeous Robert Redford and sexy Dustin Hoffman. Jason Robards...
...began with a suspicious scratching sound in Attorney General Edward Levi's ornate fifth-floor office in the Justice Department. A bug, perhaps? Much to the A.G.'s relief, a small gray mouse was eventually seen to dart into a hole not ten feet from his vast mahogany desk. Chicagoan Levi knew that the perpetrator was not from his home town, said an aide, "because it doesn't wear a slouch hat." Other Justice officials were unamused. Startled by what turned out to be a secret army of squatters in their gray stone colossus, they demanded...
...imbecile high-school star athlete whose lettered jacket "looked like the rear window of a Winnebago with stickers from every state." From there she moves on to kinky sex with Clem Cloyd, the town hoodlum, and then to a proper Boston women's college, "alma mater of vast battalions of female overachievers." When her prim devotion to the rationalism of Descartes collapses under the onslaught of Nietzsche, she drops out of school and into a lesbian affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next, and ultimately she sinks into a mindless marriage with...
...play our best when we're loose," Darryl DePriest said after the game. It just took the squad 30 minutes to settle down to some of its best basketball of the season. DePriest said that the plexiglass back-boards and the vast expanse of empty seats made it hard to judge distances...
...days of the Kennedy meritocracy, as seen through various purported documents pertaining to the career of Alan Casper '63, linguistics genius and Peace Corps soldier of fortune. Casper is very clever and very witty and not very deep, and Sokolov presents his case accordingly; Native Intelligence, then, is of vast prurient interest to Harvard students and, like its hero, a little too smart for its own good...