Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petkevich conceived of the skating show four years ago when he underwent knee surgery and noticed the number of children restricted to wheel chairs at the Boston Children's Hospital...
...rich Arabs may be buying banks in New York and London, but an attempt to break the bank at Monte Carlo last week was somewhat less successful. When three Saudi Arabian princes, including Minister of the Interior Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, dropped more than $6 million on the roulette wheel at the Monte Carlo Casino, even jaded Monegasques were aghast...
...pass out leaflets and verbal pep pills: "Good morning. I have a message for you. It's that God gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Moments later, the ballet of death begins again as white screens wheel and circle to shield in final decorum the bed of a dying patient...
Every White House staff reflects its President's style, whims and, most important, use of power. No sooner had Gerald Ford been sworn in than he began to dismantle the tightly hierarchical system erected by Richard Nixon. Ford is designing his presidency like a wheel, with the Oval Office at the hub and spokes radiating out in all directions. The new President intends to be in the middle of the action...
...magazine editor may be tomorrow's trip to the pawnshop, and so Charlie's extravagant spending today may be tomorrow's hustle for a meal. In this movie almost totally without plot or character development, the imminence of change, the ubiquity of contingency, predominate, and as with the wheel of fortune Charlie spins in a Reno casino at the end of the film, it is not a particular number at the end that is important, but the simple fact of its spinning...