Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Have and Have Not, beginning its run on Wednesday, is the first blast in the Brattle's famed month-long festival of Bogart's best. Howard Hawks made this with Bogie and Becall in 1944, using William Faulkner's screenplay of a Hemingway novel. If that line-up isn't strong enough for you, you must be a mouse with a glandular condition. The film's plot--a vaguely confusing story about gun-running--is mildly compelling and tangentially political. This is the confrontation between the matured Bogie and the teen-aged Lauren Bacall. She's just as tough-assed...
...President was prepared to defy the Supreme Court if it ruled against the Amchitka [atomic] blast in 1971. He was going to say: "Pull the trigger" and then explain that he had taken the action because it was vital to the military position of the U.S. vis-a-vis Russia. It was a Saturday-the day of the blast-when the court ruled that the test could be conducted. Everyone was in readiness to act if the ruling had gone the other...
...Tower of London, where historic heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh and villains like Guy Fawkes were once imprisoned, was jammed with the usual crowd of summer tourists last week. Suddenly, the three-ton 18th century Royal George cannon, a favorite exhibit with children, exploded with a deafening roar. The blast hurled the bronze gun barrel five feet into the air, showered bystanders with lethal splinters from the oak carriage, and blew out windows and a door 90 feet above...
...caravan arrived with thunder and a blast of hot air from the helicopter rotors and the speeches on the south lawn of the White House. Almost as if Nixon's arrival were a signal, the high-energy politicians began to shoot off and collide with each other. The presidential propaganda office cranked out in awed gasps stories of the millions of joyful Arabs who had shouted praises for Nixon. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler talked in super-superlatives of new eras, of more and better chances for peace. There were box scores of miles traveled (14,775), records broken (first...
...muffled drumbeat. Seeking superrealism in his interpretation, Atlanta Symphony Conductor Robert Shaw installed 16 electronically controlled explosive devices to simulate cannons in the pit. Last week, before a crowd of 1,500, he pressed a button on the conductor's stand on cue, and a smoky, skull-splitting blast filled the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center. That triggered a smoke-sensitive automatic fire alarm. In minutes, 25 eager firemen charged into the auditorium, axes and hoses at the ready. While a dazed audience watched helplessly, the firemen made for the smoke-filled pit and came within a split second...