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What the show is blessed with is Barbara Harris, a versatile, beguiling imp of a clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
...tour of Sumatra; Air Force Chief of Staff Omar Dani, reputedly a Communist; and Admiral Martadinata, whose fleet has been immobilized for months by a strike of 700 junior naval officers. The restless nation was assured by the rebels that Sukarno was "safe and under protection," and, as an afterthought Untung abolished all military ranks above his own. A new Cabinet was also announced, headed, of course, by Untung...
Gift of Gab. The task begins with defining America. The pursuit of a manifest destiny was anything but purposeful. Louisiana was purchased as an afterthought, the French sold West Florida to the U.S. without knowing it, the U.S. acquired West Florida without paying for it. Not until after the Civil War, in fact, could an American say what America...
...word sentence seemed to be tacked almost as an afterthought to the labor message sent by President Johnson to Congress last week. It urged repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law, "with the hope of reducing conflicts in our national labor policy that for several years have divided Americans." But that sentence was no afterthought: it was the fulfillment of a promise made by Johnson to organized labor during the last presidential campaign-and it seemed likely to set off the hottest fight of this session of Congress...
...fiery second-in-command, Captain Tyreen (Richard Harris). When the major and the captain are not psychoanalyzing each other or saving a village from a regiment of French lancers, they court a German-born widow (Senta Berger). Finally the kidnaped children are recovered and Charriba punished, almost as an afterthought, leaving the way clear for a brisk, bloody showdown between U.S. and French troops...