Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Better Luck. What remains is an enervating epic about a young man, unpromising at school, whose parents did not pay him quite enough attention. Since Young Winston attempts to be a kind of vest-pocket spectacle, there are also a couple of the battles in which he fought (a set-to in the Sudan, a Boer skirmish). Attenborough stages them with all the fury of a grade school recess. He has better luck with the actors, perhaps because he is an actor himself. Ward is credible in the thorny role of Winston as a young man, Shaw superb...
Forster) is a $20-a-day Hollywood private eye who wears a vest, a trench coat and a Bogart mask of cynicism. "I hope you'll pardon the way I look. I just threw something on," a pretty suspect (Jessica Walter) tells him when he rings her doorbell. "You almost missed," retorts Banyon, in a line that dates from considerably earlier than...
...dispiriting consequences of friction between students and university administrators during recent years has been the stepped up efforts of administrators to control the campus press. In each of the last three years, officials at large state universities have sought to wrest control of student newspaper from student editors and vest final decision making power in the most indefensible one threatens the independence of The Florida Alligator the daily newspaper of the University of Florida...
...most dispiriting consequence of friction between students and university administrators during been the stepped up efforts of administrators control the campus press. In each of the last three years officials at large state universities have sought to wrest control of student newspaper from student editors and to vest final decision makeup power in school administrators. The latest episode perhaps the most indefensible one threatens the independence of The Florida Alligator the daily newspaper of the University of Florida...
...promises his support, the reward can jump to as high as $15,000 for an ordinary delegate and $30,000 for the leader of a faction. In some cases, the faction leader will make special payments of perhaps $3,300-known as a bodan chokkl, or "bulletproof vest"-to his followers, thereby enabling him to deliver their votes in a bloc to the candidate of his choice...