Word: winner
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...awkward, oblique angles and chancy ricochets, and then does it. All over the country, people were impressed. Gil MacDougald of Atlanta thinks Iacocca is great, and has a plausible sociological explanation to boot. "In America," says MacDougald, a window washer, "people pull for underdogs and they just love a winner. Iacocca was both...
...chooses these things, anyway? Qu'est-ce qui se passe? On Oscar night next Monday, five anonymous films will be filling slots that might have been reserved for Fellini or Bergman, for A Sunday in the Country or A Love in Germany. When TV viewers hear "And the winner is . . ." they may well ask, "Who cares...
...same be said for Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, the Soviet film that won the 1980 foreign Oscar? Or Volver a Empezar, the Spanish winner two years ago? Or for all the films nominated this year? The answer is no, and part of the problem is the Academy's cumbersome selection procedure that has evolved over the years--a procedure devised to be fair to the diversity of national cinemas. In recent years, 20 or more films have been submitted, one film to a country, chosen by indigenous committees of filmmakers, critics and bureaucrats; this year there were...
...country's smallest and poorest state, Oskar Lafontaine, 41, a shrewd and charismatic leftist, led the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to an absolute majority in a state assembly that had been dominated by conservatives for three decades. By contrast, in West Berlin, long a stronghold of the SPD, the ^ winner was a conservative, Christian Democratic Mayor Eberhard Diepgen, 43. Two elements common to both votes were the resurgence of the center-right Free Democrats, thought to be in danger of extinction as a party just a few weeks ago, and the poor showing of the anti-Establishment Greens and their...
...winner will be invited to speak during Brown's Senior Week on subjects involving universities and their role in the public arena; Moses said...