Word: bitely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week let it be known that he would not attend the Arab Summit Conference tentatively scheduled to begin in Rabat on Jan. 17. Feisal resents the fact that the conference and its subject-Israel-were arranged at Nasser's behest and convenience, fears that Nasser will put the bite on him for more money. Feisal has no intention of increasing his payments. Indeed, he has taken advantage of the Egyptian withdrawal from Yemen to promote a Royalist offensive against the Republican capital of San'a. If he can dislodge the Yemeni Republicans, Feisal hopes that he will then...
When the New York Review of Books first appeared four years ago, it was given the kind of hearty welcome usually reserved for long-awaited novels. Here at last were intellectuals putting out a review of depth, personality and bite, one that would treat books and their ideas with the seriousness they deserve. To some extent, Review still does just that. But in the past year or so, a distinct change has come over the tabloid-sized bimonthly...
...been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans are relatively weak in classical training," he says, "but they make up for it in other ways. They move closer to the floor, use it, bite into it. Europeans tend to hold themselves high and can't do the same movements...
...Ninh. It proved an eerie enterprise. Moving down the corridors between the evenly spaced, parallel rows of trees, the troops were frequently brought up short by jungle birds whose screeches mimicked the whine of bullets. The almost purple earth underfoot teemed with a fierce breed of red ant whose bite meant torment. But the battalion soon did some tormenting of its own. Running into a company of Viet Cong, it killed 83 in a four-hour firefight that left the bullet-punctured rubber trees bleeding white...
...performances and the direction, the whole attitude of what a film should be is there to see and understand. Why don't you people stick to writing about politics and, I might add, try reviewing some of the politicians' performances? You'd really have something to bite into...