Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report passed through the censorship of Egypt, now engaged in a violent propaganda war with Iraq. The sketchy account provided few details. But if the report is true, it could foretoken a new cold war explosion over the Middle East...
Collision Course, by Alvin Mosca, an account of the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, the story of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, skillfully raise ghost ships from the depths of forgetfulness...
What atrocities they have not committed on history, Writers Norman Corwin and Giorgio Prosperi have dealt out to the script. Neither evidently thought that an account of the Goya-Alba romance need include mention of her husband, or of Goya's wife and 20-odd children. The characters that do manage to squeeze into the script get lines so cliché-ridden that even the Count of Monte Cristo would wince ("I'll teach her who's the Queen of Spain!" cries the Queen of Spain). Actor Franciosa brings a certain expression to the role of Goya...
...dervish and a Talmudic scholar. Arriving in Bokhara with its Tower of Death, verminous dungeons and treacherous Emir, Wolff grandly ordered that the British prisoners be handed over to him. "How extraordinary," exclaimed the Emir. "I have 200,000 Persian slaves here-nobody cares for them; and on account of two Englishmen, a person comes from England and single-handedly demands their release." Wolff was jolted to discover that the two officers had already been executed, and was lucky to escape Bokhara with his own head still on his shoulders...
Author Wolfe claims that his story, which turns on two attempts on Trotsky's life, follows the facts. The account of the assassination relies on General Sanchez Salazar, Mexican chief of secret police, whose Murder in Mexico established beyond much doubt that the man who murdered Trotsky was in fact a Stalinist agent. Wolfe's picture is drawn against the background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south...