Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test, gets a part and grows up to become a big movie star. Except that Anthony DePaola, of Old Bridge, N.J., who met Woody just that way,' was screen-tested and given a walk-on part in Allen's latest film, still wants to be a doctor...
...went on leave. Typically he stayed close to his sport, working full-time in a running store in Terrell, North Carolina. The job allowed him to run three times a day, hardly what most people would consider time off, but for a distance runner it was just what the doctor would have ordered...
...even that event will probably be transmogrified into comedy. For in Brooks' philosophy, laughter is the only effective painkiller available without a doctor's prescription. "If I were dying in a hospital of a terminal disease," says Taxi Star Judd Hirsch, "I would want Jim Brooks to come in and direct me on how to die. I'm pretty sure he would come up with something positive...
...knows who is going where, and so everyone goes the wrong place, down a suicide alley where the police wait with two cans of Mace apiece. A little fence is cut, a few people even reach the other side, and pretty soon you're retreating backwards, trying to doctor Mace victims and to keep singing and hold hands and walk-not-run, and the police are right behind you. They have their sticks out and they're using them, and they don't care that you're shouting "the whole world is watching." They are more than willing...
Nevertheless, the doctor does not dismiss specualtion that the most recent set of worries-dismal ratings in the polls, Soviet troops in Cuba, allegations of cocaine use by Hamilton Jordan, the challenge of Senator Edward Kennedy for his party's presidential nomination-might have undermined Carter's strength and played some part in his Catoctin fallout. More significant, however, was the fact that the President was doggedly attempting to improve his time; he was trying to cut a full four minutes off his best previous time on the punishing Catoctin course, from 50 minutes to 46. Many runners...