Word: bellum
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...other picture I've seen; we share with the characters the memory of scenes as if they had occurred 15 years before. Our sense of history is reinforced by the obvious visual deterioration from peace to war, and far more so by the well-observed contrast between genteel ante-bellum wealth and bourgeois Reconstruction opulence...
...move by Eshkol's government towards an acceptance of a U.N. resolution which would take the Israelis back to their status ante bellum would be greeted with a great deal of unpopularity -- something the ancient regime can ill afford at this point...
...LONER (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Lloyd Bridges in a post-bellum Western dramatic series...
...creaky ante bellum mansion where Charlotte has lived in unkempt seclusion for decades has to be torn down to make way for a bridge. "Dollin' Cousin" Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) arrives to help Dr. Drew (Joseph Gotten) handle the crisis and learns firsthand that the good old days are far from over. That night, in Miriam's closet, a dress is slashed to ribbons. Soon a head rolls out of a box, a hand starts picking out tunes in the music room, and heaven only knows where a body will turn...
...lawyer he had beaten in 1960, Donald J. Irwin. Four New Jersey Democrats defeated Republican incumbents, giving that state its first Democratic congressional majority (eleven seats to four) in 52 years. Louisville's former Democratic Mayor Charles Farnsley, a lanky eccentric who affects custom-made ante bellum clothes but is nevertheless a popular middle-reader, unseated Republican Incumbent Gene Snyder, who angered the district's 78.000 Negroes by voting against the civil rights bill. Across the nation, a dozen other conservative Republicans also toppled. Among them: Colorado's J. Edgar Chenoweth, Indiana's Earl Wilson...