Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hope makes a pass at playing a TV talk-show host whose wife (Eva Marie Saint) came out to take a bow one evening and hasn't left the stage since. Miffed at the state of his marriage generally, and particularly huffy about competition from his spouse, Hope wings off to his Arizona ranch, where he becomes mixed up in the mur der of an Indian girl, portrayed by a Vegas chorine type caked...
...unliberated womanhood. Eva Marie is converted from "doing her own thing" to housewifedom and motherhood after some heavy petting with Hope, who manages to extricate them both from imprisonment in a cave. To do this, he shoots a signal out of a crack in the rocks with a homemade bow crafted from a handy branch and Eva Marie's leopard-skin brassiere. "I'm certainly glad I didn't burn my bra," coos Eva Marie. This sort of sniggering sitcom stuff belongs more prop erly on television, the celluloid burial ground for which Cancel My Reservation...
...side begins to experience greater pressure than the other. If the rudder is swung to starboard (right), for instance, pressure on that side will increase and lessen on the other. As a result the stern, or tail end, of the boat will swing to port (left) and the bow, or front, to starboard. Moreover, the turn will become sharper as the rudder angle is increased. But if the angle becomes larger than 35° the rudder will stir up so much turbulence in the vicinity that it will rapidly lose its "grip" on the water and thus its steering ability...
...more than usually unpredictable. He declared that tiny Rwanda was harboring thousands of Israeli agents bent on sabotaging his regime; Rwanda nervously asked Belgium for help in case it was invaded by Uganda. At home, Amin ordered a ban on teenagers' dances and announced that men should bow to him before stating their business, and that women should kneel...
When he reached his white brick house in suburban Bethesda, Md., he found that his wife Barbara had coolly organized a gathering. "I have a long skirt on and the dog has a bow," she said determinedly. "We are going to have a party tonight." She passed cheese and crackers while the Senator circulated with small talk among 65 friends and neighbors who stopped by. He also warned his staff to avoid any sniping at McGovern. Said he: "I am not critical of anything in this experience in the past week...