Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenstein, he achieves compositions of masses in motion that have esthetic force and balance. When the soldiers circle their king, they are humble spokes of fealty wheeling around the hub of majesty. Men wounded and dying are draped onstage with the comely anguish of Pietàs of the battlefield...
...anniversary go unremembered in France. At a round of reunions in Paris, business-suited survivors of the debacle hoisted nostalgic toasts to "the Angel of Dienbienphu," Geneviève de Galard-Terraube, who was the only woman nurse on the battlefield. (Now 39, Geneviève is a retiring Paris housewife and mother of two children, married to a former French paratrooper.) They were poignant get-togethers, for Dienbienphu holds as deep emotional implications for Frenchmen today as Verdun or Waterloo did for earlier generations...
...Battlefield. And so to bed? Not on anybody's tintype. For even as he was preparing to meet with the railway negotiators after his flight from the fair, Johnson had another idea. He recalled that he had an engagement to fly to Chicago the next afternoon to speak to Mayor Dick Daley, the Democratic boss, and his minions. Why not expand the tour? No sooner said than done...
Viewing Mississippi as the central battlefield in the fight for equal rights, COFO aims at recruiting up to 2000 workers, mostly out-of-state students, for a many-faceted attack on the political, social and legal structures of the state...
...chapter in the manual of animation. In Skulduggery, Harry Truman comes popping out of the mouth of a sumptuous girl; then a hammer comes out of her nose and knocks Harry back between her chops. Breath-Death shows Harpo Marx playing his harp on the edge of a smoking battlefield. Khrushchev appears, sneezes, and Hitler pops up and says Gesundheit. A Merlin-like figure suddenly gets stuck in the back of the neck with a flying table fork. A nude appears, with two small skulls where her breasts should be. Another girl lies in bed caressing...