Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief rattles along on the intricacies of its plot-and-conspiracy narrative, but its humor is dispensed with all the subtlety of a bazooka blast. In the middle of an important conference, the President accepts a Paris call from "Henry," who places a rush order for some Reuben's cheesecake. The Rev. Mr. Williams assures a troubled Chief that "in times of distress, prayer is a powerful laxative...
...Clemente press conference the next day, Nixon fully applauded Agnew's blast at his investigators. Discussion of cases on which grand jury action is pending, the President said, is highly improper because during such probes "all kinds of charges are made which will not stand up in open court." Then, clearly leaving the impression that he was dissatisfied with Richardson's failure to effect total secrecy in the matter, he announced that he had ordered the Attorney General to investigate his department's leaks. Anyone found to have given unauthorized information about the Agnew case...
What was more surprising was an out-of-character blast by India's ceremonial figurehead, President Varahagi-ri Venkata Giri. He said the government had failed to use the immense power that Mrs. Gandhi had won in 1971 in the national elections and in 1972 in the state elections-and, he might have added, the unmatched popularity she had gained after India trounced Pakistan and freed Bangladesh. Little more than a year ago, India and Indira alike were in a state of seemingly enduring euphoria...
...with their separate versions of A Doll's House, five versions of The Three Musketeers before the cameras in Europe, and two versions of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra playing London. The more traditional of the two starred Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra). The other, a full-blast 20th century version, brought Rebel Vanessa Redgrave on stage. The actors' props were revolvers, hand grenades and Ronson lighters. Antony was a cigar-smoking swinger sporting a white cravat. Dominating all, even without the aid of her three-inch heels, was Vanessa Redgrave. Her Cleopatra was a rasping vamp...
...have not disturbed it. A private schooner, the Fri, also sailed into the area to protest, but French sailors boarded it and hauled its skipper, David Moodie, 27, of Sausalito, Calif., and his 15 passengers off to the island of Hao. In Hiroshima, 130 victims of the first atomic blast marched in silent protest...