Word: armored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patently too fabulous to have been built in a day, but it doesn't look lived-in either. Director Anthony Mann makes it a picture-book setting aswarm with extras behaving like extras and movie stars all dressed up to face posterity in spanking new tunics, togas and armor. Among the luminaries are Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason and Omar Sharif...
...surface signs of freedom, the Soviet army still holds the city in a firm but inconspicuous grip. More than 40,000 Russian soldiers are stationed in Hungary, and though they keep to their camps, their armor is always ready to roll. Many Hungarians hoped that Khrushchev's visit might be timed to a withdrawal of Soviet arms. Budapest officials doubted that this will happen...
...Surrender, you Turkish dogs, or we will kill you all!" This cry blared from a loudspeaker on an armor-plated bulldozer in the Cypriot coastal town of Ktima. From behind sandbags in the town's Turkish quarter, embattled partisans screamed back: "Come closer, you Greek swine, and you will...
Lindner's paintings are violently theatrical; bathed in stagelight, they proffer biting vignettes of the modern world. Each character is an island: giant kew-pie-doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...
...flaws that developed in the team's armor were relatively minor. When the Crimson didn't take a first, it invariably took a second...