Word: bashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THOUGH he was once one of the more notorious playboys of the Arab world, Morocco's King Hassan II quickly proved himself a sober ruler when he acceded to the throne more than ten years ago. But the slim, dark-eyed monarch still enjoys a good bash, and he decided to celebrate in style when he turned 42 last week. Accordingly, he invited 500 guests, including Cabinet Ministers, generals and the diplomatic corps, to join him at Skhirat, one of his ten palaces, which is situated at a seaside spa ten miles outside Rabat...
...whale blood off the Australian reef. In the last reel, the prep-school Ahab finally spots his béte blanche, and both drama and cinema achieve an almost hallucinatory suspense. The crew is lowered in barred aluminum cages. The sharks, at first floating like malignant dirigibles, suddenly bash the metal in rage and frustration. It is more than a cinematic high. It is a justifiable anthropomorphism, a juxtaposition of hunter and hunted that Melville, or for that matter Moby-Dick, would have savored...
...corner, the publicity men and Boston's two and a half papparazzi were getting along with dear old Erich, the only "celebrity" who had actually made it to the bash, but, beside Erich, no one else seemed to care. Eventually the crowd drifted into the theatre proper, where everyone drifted around in search of seats like so many fish in this great, midnight blue aquarium. All about, little pops and minor explosions resounded as champagne glasses were dropped and trampled underfoot-and this would continue throughout the running of the film...
...change in direction was not easy. His Broadway bash, the musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, closed before it opened. His films included one limited success as Julie Christie's sadistic husband in Petulia. The change of image and luck finally came with Hamlet. "I had been told that the English actors would eat me alive," he says, but he took strength from their patience and from the dictum of Margaret Leighton (his TV Gertrude) that rehearsals are the place to make a"bloody fool" of yourself. As he got deeper into the play, he discovered that...
DARTMOUTH-HOLY CROSS: Football's the name; brutality's the game, especially when these two teams bash heads. I'm taking even odds on the survival of at least one team, and it's a 4-1 shot that both will survive. Holy Cross may come out on top in the pre-game prayers, but Dartmouth will win the game...