Word: across
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps more mystifying-was the situation on the battlefield. Except for the clash at Ben Het, which ended last week (see THE WORLD), there was almost complete silence from the enemy, and American intelligence reported that three North Vietnamese regiments, or about 7,500 men, had been pulled back across the Demilitarized Zone into the North. At a news conference, Secretary of State William Rogers said that "we have had the lowest level of combat activity in Viet Nam for a long time, possibly the whole war." Since the severity of enemy activity has been one of Washington...
...recounts her progress through the world. The props represent the capitals of Europe, Lola dancing from one to another; but her broken-down body can only hobble through the successive positions of Madrid, Rome, and Warsaw. The sequence's most sweeping action is an abduction on horseback; Lola lies across the saddle as if dead. A scene change fills the frames with screens--quickly passing objects--before and behind the actors, and sets up a transition to the next flashback...
After she dances several days later he meets her backstage; the space is similarly deep and filled with decorative objects (props stored from old shows). A curtain-rope swings across his figure, then on the backswing half-way across her, linking them while it indicates the fixity of his position and character (including his advanced age) and the semi-fixity, two-way pulls, or hers. He proposes to her: the rope stops swinging, motion ceases, and again the film nearly ends. But her favorable answer begins the swinging again. Both times a "miracle" has overcome the setting's threat...
...Stan Hilditch, a manganese prospector, stumbled across an iron-ore outcropping near Mount Newman that assayed at almost the maximum possible purity. Australians had long known that iron ore could be mined in their country, but not until finds like Hilditch's did they suspect that it existed in such phenomenal abundance − an estimated 20 billion tons, about one-twelfth of the world's known reserves. Three years later, Australian legislators repealed a ban on iron-ore exports once enacted in the belief that there was only enough for domestic needs. Two big iron-ore mines opened...
Histoire Naturelle. There was a giant strawberry in the bathroom. Across a pair of double doors appeared a huge butterfly that seemed to fly when the doors were opened. Between the windows in the dining room stood a delicately tattooed nude flanked by her green shadow. The master bedroom was turned over to Ernst's Histoire Naturelle, a subliminally suggestive panorama filled with prickly plants, grasshoppers and a lazy anteater carrying its baby over a brick wall. Some of the most charming reveries were reserved for the bedroom of the Eluards' five-year-old daughter Cecile, who went...