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...
...find this omission more damaging to "objective reporting" than the unofficial press censorship in Viet Nam, although I do thank you for stating that the peace demonstration "was as peaceful as its pacifist philosophy and about as damaging to the U.S. image throughout the world as a blow from the daffodils the marchers carried." This was the intention of the demonstration, and is more than I can say for the violent handful who tried to disrupt the "mobilization" with paint, eggs and steel rods-some of which hit disabled veterans of other U.S. conflicts quietly demonstrating their reservations on this...
...these experiments good enough for a jury to make a decision which can strike this defendant from the face of the earth?" thundered Bailey. The jury's answer was a blow to the criminal counselor, who gained fame only last year by winning acquittals for Dr. Sam Sheppard and Coppolino and liked to brag about having an impressive string of 19 victories in homicide cases. So far this year, with the conviction of the Boston Strangler, he has a string of two well advertised losses. Though Bailey vowed to appeal the verdict, a stunned Coppolino was led from...
Divorced. By Vanessa Redgrave, 30, lissome film star (Morgan!, Blow-Up): Tony Richardson, 38, Academy Award-winning director (Tom Jones); on grounds of adultery with Jeanne Moreau while filming The Sailor from Gibraltar (see CINEMA); after four years of marriage, two children; in London...
...used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information about such things as the July 20 plot against Hitler and the development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets, Roessler ultimately became the prey of the Gestapo, which stumbled onto his existence by intercepting his radio messages to Moscow. Fortunately...