Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must put in a good word for her. You Americans have been unfair to Garbo by failing to give her an Academy Award.* I believe this is the fault of those in power in the United States and not of the American people. When I was in Yenan a correspondent by the name of Brooks Atkinson used to discuss Garbo with...
Dunk. The word does not do justice to the majesty and the savagery of the act. First comes the ballet move-an explosion in the legs, a concussive last step and then a great leap. Floating, twisting, pulling free of the floor, drifting over dazed defenders. Then the frozen moment, suspended above the basket, serene for a timeless instant. Finally the kill: ramming ball through rim in a single ferocious stab of hostility and triumph...
...Farrah posters and 40 or so movie offers, the Charlie's Angels star has decided to quit the hit ABC series. The Hollywood line has it that she is playing games to raise her salary from $5,000 per episode to as much as $75,000. The word from the Fawcett-Majors household, however, is that the actress has simply done some basic arithmetic. Since Farrah's 5 million poster fans alone would probably lay out $3 to see her famous teeth and other assets in a film, she ought to go into the movies...
...relocate this year will be allowed to deduct up to $3,000 in expenses that they pay themselves-like the cost of finding a home in a new city-v. $2,500 on those returns being filed now. Even these changes will not be the last, or the loudest, word on tax reform: President Carter has promised far more fundamental proposals by this September...
...role of Tobacco Road's Jeeter Lester on Broadway; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England. Though the critics panned the Erskine Caldwell play when it opened in 1933, Hull believed it to be an honest, if disturbing, portrait of rural poverty. He refused to be paid until word of mouth made the play a hit; it was performed 3,182 times, the third longest run in Broadway history...