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Word: willful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Now Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship. The ruse does not succeed. Though the freckle-faced Reno and Mickey Rooney (as the horse's crafty old trainer) are well cast, then-scenes together are perfunctory and impersonal. Emotions are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Ride on a Dream Horse | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

She is here involved with a pair of noble decadents. Terence Stamp plays the one who begins his affair with her imagining it will be yet another bored dalli ance of the sort in which he specializes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glum Gavotte | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Gracie and Ginny now attend separate severe language disorder classes in the San Diego public school system. Put in different schools so they will not fall back to their private communication, they speak jerky, passable English. But they are woefully behind in social and emotional development. "I keep reading that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Insiders get good at deciding who could have said what, particularly when anonymity operates by understood code names: a "senior State Department official aboard the Secretary's plane" used to mean Henry Kissinger, and now means Cyrus Vance. A diplomat or bureaucrat can privately get across his side of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Just Don't Quote Me | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Number four man Joe Somers followed Stubbs and clinched the Harvard team victory with a four-game win over first classman (senior) Will Harrison. "I mixed my drop shots well and took advantage of Harrison's weak front court play," Somers said.

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Crimson Racquetmen Down Army, 6-3; Bell, Somers Lead Harvard Attack | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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