Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burns jumped out to a 1-0 lead with some amazing rip corners and three-wall nicks that fell just beyond Havens' racquet. "Burnsy is a very good player, but I've never seen him hit it like that before," Heller said. "He was out of his mind...
...isolation and unisex, it is not too surprising that the Chinese should again aspire to elegance, or seek it from Paris, where some of their leaders were educated. As for Cardin: "When I was 20, a fortune teller told me that my name would be on all the walls of the cities of the world." Now, the Great Wall...
...Russell plunges deeply into Presley's psyche, bringing all the talent and all the obsession right to the surface. He and Director Carpenter contrive an introduction that eerily sets the tone of the movie and fixes their subject all at once: his I shadow deep on a white wall, Presley sits alone in a dark Las Vegas hotel room, dressed all in black, watching television from behind dark shades, waiting for the night and his first show. It's good drama and good rock 'n' roll...
...McGraw-Hill Inc., the magazine, book and information-services giant, it will have to be by way of a revolt of Mc Graw-Hill shareholders against their own management. That was the upshot of fast-moving developments last week that abruptly switched the tide of battle in one of Wall Street's biggest takeover wars ever...
...amateurs and pros among writers too. One of the most influential pros is Ed McBain. He did not invent the police "procedural," but his 87th Precinct books have attracted several imitators, especially in Europe. The most famous is the Martin Beck series by the Swedish couple Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, who made their Stockholm cops into moody eccentrics and stopped their plots for digressions into psychology and politics...