Word: ao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible to make before. Zeiss has an f0.70 lens, 100 times faster than the human eye in daylight, for general photography, and a 110° wide-angle lens free of distortions. Schneider has a movie-projection lens that without alterations can handle nor mal and widescreen, Cinemascope and Todd-AO film...
...gratitude for the 2,000 Filipino troops President Ferdinand Marcos has sent to help fight the Viet Cong. Along with Ky came his wife Mai, 24, and the airport crowd crushed forward for a better look as she stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still gorgeous. The Kys and the Marcos hit it off handsomely at the state banquet that night. After the usual exchange of medals, a four-man combo took over...
...origin is indeed from two characters that by themselves mean "spontaneous" and "uncontrol," but then, my dictionary tells me the word free is from "to be fond of," equally irrelevant. And finally, no one who has read a translation of Cliuang tzii or of the poetry of T'ao Yuan-ming is ignorant of the fact that for nearly 2500 years there has been a strong Chinese ideal of "the integrity of the lone individual against the group...
Stage Secrets. A more gracious entrance was made by Mary Martin. Just off the plane, she said: "I'm thrilled to be here, proud to be here and glad to be here." At the press conference, where she wore a yellow and white ao dai, she was asked, "Are you afraid to be here?" Mary hesitated, then answered, "No, not really." Then she turned the question around. Were the correspondents afraid? Back came a thunderous "Yes!" So was the Pentagon. The company would put on six performances in the next ten days in the war area, but the exact...