Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson foil squad, a weak link in Harvard's armor all year, hopes to rebound this weekend from disastrous showings against Penn and Yale. If Dave Fichter. Don Valentine and Sam Anderson can return to the level of performance that they achieved in mid-season foil action. Harvard's chances will receive a big boost...
...match will be the foil competition. Neither Penn nor Harvard is noted for its foil squad. Penn coach Lajos Csiszar said yesterday that his foil team is the weakest link in the Quakers's armor and expressed concern about their chances on Saturday...
Talk about your bad marriages. Robert (Michael Caine) is a successful London architect wedded-or perhaps welded-to an aging spitfire named Zee (Elizabeth Taylor). Zee has a shape like a brioche and an armor-piercing tongue she uses to lash Robert into line. Robert loves it. He flaunts his casual affairs so that she can drown him in venom. Hatred, in fact, is the single sign of life in their relationship...
...dream of antiquity becomes concrete in De Chirico's later work, and all his efforts are posited on the belief that somehow it can be given life -if not by talent, then by sheer will. De Chirico's self-magniloquent portraits in armor and 17th century lace are not simply costume pieces, but efforts to inhabit the dream and be a one-man Renaissance. His interminable pairs of Bambi-eyed horses prancing on a marble-littered beach have the same intention. The sum effect is, inevitably, absurd: for De Chirico has no more talent for illusionism than...
...Saigon, the elements of farce in the situation were underlined with tragedy. There was talk of a coup, and the guard around the presidential palace was reinforced. Saigon gossips began adding up the forces loyal to Vice President Ky, which are thought to include some marine, airborne and armor battalions, plus six prop-driven Skyraiders at Tan Son Nhut airbase. The U.S. command placed all American installations on alert, mainly to keep G.I.s off the streets of cities where short-lived but ugly anti-American riots had broken out last week...