Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene. Erik Amfitheatrof, who interviewed directors of Sotheby's and Christie's in London-and who began buying Japanese art while reporting from Tokyo in the 1960s-dreams of finding the Hiroshige print White Rain at Shōno under his Christmas tree. "Alas, my chances are slim," he admits. "It was auctioned at Christie's New York this year for $13,000." But no art, thank you, for Art Critic Robert Hughes, who wrote this week's Essay on collecting. Says Hughes, who has received his share of free samples from would-be-but-weren...
Last year the Aeroquip Corp., a subsidiary of Toledo-based Libbey-Owens-Ford, announced that it was closing its hydraulic hose plant in Youngstown, Ohio. The city was already strug- gling to absorb the layoffs of more than 4,000 steelworkers, and new job prospects in the area seemed slim. So some of the 375 employees decided to buy the 48-acre facility and run it themselves...
...Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic way. Indeed, 1941's players are so numerous and di verse that one almost expects cameos by the Dead End Kids or maybe Anna May Wong...
Seeing that his chances were slim, Daley suddenly withdrew from the contest and said he would run on his own in the Democratic primary for state's attorney, which means he will be battling his father's own machine. The primary winner will face the Republican incumbent, Bernard Carey, 44, who leads in the polls. But should Burke manage to become state's attorney, the story could take a fascinating twist. For Chicago pols figure that Burke is ambitious enough to challenge Byrne herself in the 1983 mayoralty race. That could be a calamity for Jane...
...impossible-angle 25-yd. bullet late in the game to prevent a total rout. Charles also scored in the late going yesterday, but his single tally came after Nittany Lion All-American Jim Stamatis found the Columbia net with a pair of headballs to give Penn State a slim victory and a third-place finish...