Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...star witnesses are certain to be the Carter brothers. Said Subcommittee Chairman Bayh: "In the final analysis, the President is the one out there who can do more to lay this issue to rest than anybody." The Senators will not have tune to prepare for questioning key witnesses - including the Carters - until after the Democratic Convention...
...bantam-size African (5 ft. 4 in., 117 Ibs.) and two teammates ran in alternating spurts to weary the bearded Finn. Said Viren: "The Ethiopians broke the pace, continuously changing the lead, stopping and then pushing harder again to crack our nerves." By the final backstretch, Viren was spent. His rival, known as "Yifter the Shifter" for his overdrive kicks, sprinted home. Yifter's time was 20 sec. slower than the world record, but this was of no consequence to the jubilant Ethiopians, who danced and sang in the stands afterward. "We are running for medals," exulted Yifter...
...unless he forks over his lunch money. So Cliff finds a bodyguard, hulking Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) who, the rumor goes, has killed a kid, raped a teacher, and shot a cop. Cliff eventually wins over the silent, secretive Ricky, and the two score a rousing--and hilarious--final victory over the bullies who have tormented them since...
...bodyguard. In the course of their nicely developed relationship, Clifford discovers that his new friend's silence is motivated by a dark but not dingy secret, which understanding can cure. By the time the two have disposed of their tormentors, in a well-staged final confrontation, they have done a lot of growing...
...small wonder that his biography is subtitled The Mask Behind the Mask. But after the final disguise there was a man of enormous gifts and conflicts. Although he was third-generation show business-both parents and a grandparent were music hall entertainers -Sellers preferred to recall that his ancestry included Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and 18th century British Boxing Champion Daniel Mendoza. The boy dreamed of a career in journalism, "the Spanish Civil War covered exclusively by Peter Sellers," but in adolescence he was claimed by comedy. In the R.A.F. he amused airmen by imitating a series of officers...