Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY. Fireworks are best in the dark, and when the lights blow out in a London flat, a situation fraught with friction sets off sparks of hilarity. An agile and acrobatic cast keeps Peter Shaffer's latest dramatic exercise in amusing motion...
...quite a risk, especially in the wake of February's nationwide elections, in which the Congress Party lost control of eight of India's 17 state governments and dropped 82 seats in the lower house of Parliament. Hoping to deal Indira yet another blow, seven opposition parties, ranging from far-rightists to Peking-lining leftists, rallied behind a single candidate, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Subba Rao, a staunch Hindu. But the vote, conducted in the state assemblies and na tional Parliament, went to Husain by a solid margin...
...inscrutable Cannes Film Festival jury, and she had been passed over only last month for an Oscar. So now, with each other for moral support, Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni, 54, and British Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 30, she in sequined tunic and tights, braved a screening at Cannes of Blow-Up, in which Vanessa had taken a relatively small part simply because "I wanted to be directed by Antonioni." After the showing, Vanessa went home to London, but Antonioni stayed on for the happy ending: a Golden Palm applauding Blow-Up as the best film of the 25 shown...
...upper chamber's overriding concern. The measure would give up to $30 million each to the Republican and Democratic parties from $1 contributions checked off federal income tax returns. Though the Senate has already voted three times to repeal it, Long's crusade for his by-blow brainchild has been pressed with a fanatic zeal that has eroded the almost illimitable patience of his colleagues...
...evacuated 130 Americans from Yemen because of harassment of its AID mission by the republican regime of Abdullah Sallal. Two AID officials, Stephen Liapis, 33, and Harold Hartman, 36, have been jailed on trumped-up charges that they were caught attempting to blow up an ammunition dump with a bazooka. The U.S. has protested vigorously, but has hesitated to break relations lest it have to abandon Liapis and Hartman and give up its diplomatic listening posts in Yemen...