Word: stirringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Variety reporter and the industry's unofficial historian, observes, "People go to the movies-and, even in the coming age of full-service home video, will continue to go-because it gets them out of the house." Frank Price, 50, president of thriving Columbia Pictures (The Blue Lagoon, Stir Crazy), calls movies "a dating phenomenon." Who goes on dates? Who goes to the movies? Overwhelmingly, the young: 76% of all moviegoers are between the ages of twelve and 29. Some are even younger: Popeye made $45 million of its gross from discriminating film lovers under twelve...
...well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms are a different fettle of kitsch. In the early 1900s the Rev. William Archibald Spooner caused a stir at New College, Oxford, with his famous spoonerisms, most of which were either deliberate or apocryphal. But a real one-his giving out a hymn in chapel as "Kinquering Kongs Their Titles Take"-is said to have brought down the house of worship, and to have kicked off the genre. After...
...production of minerals." European allies are already afraid that the U.S., in the name of antiCommunism, may forge closer relations with the apartheid regime. That might lead the Pretoria government to continue stalling on independence for Namibia, slow any liberalization of apartheid laws hi South Africa and stir substantial anti-U.S. sentiment throughout black Africa. Haig's aides insist that no policy has been set and that the Secretary fully understands that the issue is too complex to be seen in simple East-West terms. Says one: "This Administration will surprise you on the Third World...
...gentle killer" who police believe may have committed at least six of the killings of Atlanta's black children in the past six months. The profile, published in the Atlanta Constitution last week and described as the work of FBI psychologists, caused a bit of a stir. According to FBI Spokesman John Glover, it was not released by the FBI and as published is inaccurate "as to details of the bureau's profile...
...those stirring words uttered last week by the Rev. Ian Paisley, 54, the durable firebrand of Ulster politics, had a strangely familiar ring, it was not accidental. Precisely the same call to arms had been issued 69 years earlier by Ulster Hero Sir Edward Carson, when he rallied fellow Protestants fighting to keep their ties to the United Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled...