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Word: valiant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salute to you and your valiant family, Mr. Lowe! Walk proudly and carry a rear-view mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1977 | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...crew and passengers and slip down below the altitude where radar can track the craft. Then they fly it smack into the ocean. The thing sinks but does not flood, thanks to some watertight compartments Stewart has thoughtfully provided for his artwork. Everyone behaves predictably. Pilot Jack Lemmon is valiant and resourceful, older character people like Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Gotten are stoic and gallant, while the hysteric (Lee Grant) is hysterical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Misnomer | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...valiant and convincing service on the acting front, Reid Shelton gives Warbucks an unparched humanity. Without Alpo to lure him on, Sandy proves an artful trouper even if he doesn't say "Arf." Since Annie is the sort of wholesome family fare audiences are always supposed to be arfing for, Broadway's latest tryst with nostalgia will doubtless turn the till at the Alvin Theater into a reasonable facsimile of the U.S. Mint. T.E.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: No Waif Need Apply | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...battlefield to Andrei's death to Natasha's marriage with Pierre, the play loses its sense of drama and becomes a mere chronicle of events. Once more the audience is left wondering with Pierre "What does this all mean?" By the end of War and Peace, despite the valiant struggle of the director and cast, only the historian knows for sure...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Grand Delusions | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...productions-a succession of murals and drops, in blacks, golds and reds, patterned after the finely detailed Palekh lacquered boxes that were fashionable in Russia after the 1917 Revolution. The Canadian bass Victor Braun and the American coloratura Jeanette Scovotti, both of whom work primarily in Europe, made a valiant pair of lovers. John Moulson, a member of East Berlin's Komische Oper, sang the wizard with an uncommonly sweet and powerful tenor. From Pittsburgh Soprano Marianna Christos, in the minor role of a slave girl, came the most exciting singing of the evening. Here is a voice with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Russlan, Ludmilla and Sarah | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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