Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, after Harold Robbins, anything is an improvement. Olivier's Nazi hunter is a dazzling creation, easily the best male performance of the year. Who cares if he overacts--he did that in The Betsy too, and it made the damned thing worth seeing. Pale, parched, and very thin, with a mop of white hair, a fluffy white moustache, and a high, whiny, sing-song jewish voice, Olivier moves through the movie like a haunted little ham, carrying the weight of the Holocaust on his feeble shoulders. The character pushes himself--the way Olivier must have pushed himself...
Perry Duryea looks like a product of eastern Long Island, as much a part of the coastal view as the countless red-and-white lobster pots from which he has, over the years, extracted a fortune worth a couple or three million dollars. Craggy-faced, silver-haired, attractively beefy, Duryea reminds you of a fine old patrician gentleman: so much money and style, and so little of the incisive wit or brilliance that might scare off the natives. He speaks the language of the east, which is to say he pronounces his words with a heavy Republican accent, and with...
Candidates utter words like "protest," "arrest," "jail," "march," "unity," and "fight." Many students seem in a combative mood, although they have yet to find an issue worth fighting over. The candidates are forced to answer questions revealing their stands on such issues as Harvard's investment policy and the constitution's minority representation clause...
...will keep their treasured immunity from parking regulations. Thus they can continue to double-park their cars, leave them in no-parking zones, ignore parking meters -and then tear up their parking tickets. This is no small privilege. In Washington it amounts to roughly 50,000 tickets a year, worth $300,000 in uncollectible fines. In New York City the total is truly staggering: 179,000 tickets in one year, worth...
...oxygen and vitamin B-12 shots between takes. "Every muscle feels like it's been torn from the bone," grunted Stallone. "Yesterday I thought for the first time in my life I was gonna die. And you know something? I wanted to die." Even so, it may be worth it. If the film's title is any indication, Rocky just might jab his way to the championship...