Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some day soon, before the century is gone, the first week of June 1979 will go down in history as the beginning of the end of Communism throughout the world. I believe that the mortal blow has been struck by the visit to Poland of this true man of freedom, John Paul II [June...
...that's the point. But they're fantasies--they invoke the supernatural; they don't pretend that that's how it is in real life, the way John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movies do. You can't rehabilitate the alien or the zombies in Dawn-- you've got to blow them away. You don't have to blow away Vietnamese and have your audiences cheering it--unless, as in The Deer Hunter, you depict them as bloodthirsty aliens, which is a lie. (If anything, the Americans should have been depicted as aliens.) Nor do you have to blow away "social...
KILLING THE MONSTER is also sanctioned by the Church. The triumph of Britain's Hammar horror films is that thay exploit the connection between aggression, sex, and religion. Each blow of that long, hard stake into the writhing female vampire's bosom practically reverberates with church bells. Perhaps unintentionally, these movies make it easy to see how poor, repressed Puritans could have burned men and women at the stake for witchcraft. Chances are, we would have done the same...
Because of the civil war, Nicaragua's economy, already reeling from an almost total withdrawal of foreign investment and a cutoff of U.S. economic assistance, has been dealt a blow from which it will take years to recover...
...runways all over Europe. By week's end 13 European lines, including such prestigious carriers as Lufthansa, SAS, Alitalia and KLM, had put their 58 DC-10s back into the air. Though their decision brought cheers from the plane's beleaguered manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, it was a blow to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. After the May 25 Chicago crash of a DC-10 that took 275 lives, the FAA had not only grounded all of the 138 planes owned by U.S. airlines, but barred U.S. airspace to foreign-owned DC-10s. Asked in House hearings whether...