Word: freds
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...advertising itself to the world. The bustling genius of the American system ensured that to a Peruvian or a Perugian, "the movies" meant Hollywood. And the stars bred within that system sold the movies' myth about America. A Manhattan penthouse became the top of the world when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through it; the canyons of Arizona were the promised land as long as John Wayne patrolled them...
Harvard has not been the center for the coordination of violent activity for the eventual overthrow of a government. As far as I know, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 has not been stockpiling rocks, molotov cocktails and knives. President Derek C. Bok has not been urging students never to relent in a "holy struggle" against "the Zionist entity...
...occupants of the DC-9 were not so fortunate. Smoke and toxic fumes engulfed the cabin as flames flickered from the tail section. "The explosion came from the back of the plane," recalled passenger Fred Guyor. "Suddenly all this shrapnel came flying overhead, like a wave in the ocean." The survivors poured out of two exits, some breaking bones as they jumped when an evacuation chute failed to open...
Directed by Fred Schepisi...
...feels it went wrong long before Tom Stoppard sat down to write his doggedly faithful adaptation of John le Carre's best seller, long before director Fred Schepisi shouted "Action!" (or, possibly, in this case, "Stasis!"), perhaps even before the novelist set to work on his book. Le Carre seems to have gone off at about the moment the literary world made him its designated serious entertainer and he started believing his enthralled reviews. All his recent books contain far more writing than they require to explore their conventional characters and ideas. "Oh, get on with it," one snorts, setting...