Word: movers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 1987 the name of Alan Bond was riding very high in America, and in Australia he was a hero. "Bondy," as his country called him, was the prime mover in the syndicate that funded the design, construction and testing of Australia II, the 12-meter sloop with the controversial winged keel that swept to victory over the U.S. defender off Newport in 1983, leaving, for the first time in yachting history, an empty plinth in the New York Yacht Club where the America's Cup used to stand...
...Willie Anderson's home is delivered begins with workers hoisting the house's concrete steps onto a pickup truck while Anderson and her children pile broken bricks and stack cut wood. Clearance for the move requires approval from a slew of bureaucrats, and Walter Malone, 52, a professional house mover who has completed 30 jobs for Sister Grace, still has a few final forms to sign and fees to pay. "The biggest difficulty is the paperwork," he says, pointing to a glove compartment crammed full of documents. "I got so much paperwork on this thing that if anyone stops...
...playscript page, flung them passionately into the dark and secured them in the minds of theatergoers. Brilliance, for once, had its rewards. As critic Kenneth Tynan proclaimed in 1966, "Laurence Olivier at his best is what everyone has always meant by the phrase 'a great actor.' " Director, producer, prime mover of Britain's National Theater, embodier of the most vital Shakespearean heroes, Olivier at his death last week at 82 held undisputed claim to yet another title: the 20th century's definitive man of the theater...
...harnessing the muscle of police and prosecutors to close nude bars, massage parlors and so-called modeling studios across a stretch of Harris County. Today, thanks largely to Hurlbut, service roads and strips that once glittered with flagrant fronts for prostitution are clean. Hurlbut is credited as the prime mover in closing 60 sex shops and preventing dozens of others from opening...
...battered desk in a modest, cluttered office at the National League's Manhattan headquarters on Park Avenue. "I was gratified by the response. I think it's healthy." But there were other suit-wearing guests at the Seaver celebration who . . . "O.K.," Giamatti concedes, "I am seen as the prime mover of the balk." And he goes on, somewhat wearily, to explain again that he is only one member of the rules committee, which decided last winter to make pitchers toe the line. Then he changes the subject. "Remember what Seaver did at the end of the ceremony?" After a brief...