Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mist and poplar trees, a small boy playing in the river, a group of peasant women resisting the landlords against a red sunset. But just as often, Bertolucci also gives us scenes guaranteed to horrify: a man sacing off his ear, a boy's head smashed against a wall. If he goes to extremes in length and content, Bertolucci goes to even greater ones in purely physical terms...
Dick Greer beat teammate Ashwood to the wall in the 100-yd. freestyle and scored a 49.6 win for the Crimson...
...stationed in Shanghai. There, in 1946, he met and married his wife Ariadna, of Russian parentage, who had lived in Harbin, Manchuria. In 1952, he received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and settled in as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the prestigious Wall Street law firm. While there he became friendly with Royal Little, the New England businessman who was putting together Textron, one of the first conglomerates-those companies that sweep together the most wildly diverse businesses. Joining Textron at the invitation of Little, who warned him that he would be fired...
Since Little's day, conglomerates have become a dirty word on Wall Street; many hastily concocted ones fell apart. Textron is different: under Miller's management, it has combined Bell helicopters, Homelite chain saws, Talon zippers, Speidel watch bands and dozens of other products into a business that now grosses $2.6 billion a year and is increasing profits at an average of about 10% annually-just about meeting Miller's target...
...just doubled?to $2 million?but he is already rich from percentage deals on older films. The once famous womanizer has been settled down with Sally Field for over a year, and having finally braved the Bel-Air party circuit on Dinah's arm, he now shuns it. The wall-to-wall mirror on his bedroom ceiling nowadays often reflects a man reading poetry (Eliot and Frost, among others) and sipping a Tab. He is also a serious, intelligent student of film?old, exotic and by competitors. He will still shower gifts on his friends?though he admits he does...