Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrangements for Arrival. But Thieu had already fired back through his Information Minister, Ton That Thien, who asserted that "at no stage, at no time" had Thieu agreed to the U.S. formula for negotiations (see box). And, added Thien, "We cannot win the war without the U.S., and the U.S. cannot win the war without us. The same applies to making the peace...
...Aristotle Onassis becomes President of Greece, as many observers expect, his Jacqueline will not be the first woman in history to become First Lady of two nations. Away back in the 12th century, Eleanor of Aquitaine had been Queen of France and later Queen of England. The current box office success, The Lion in Winter, starring Peter O'Toole as Henry II and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor, makes clear references to these historical facts...
Self-consciousness in literature is bad enough, but self-consciously self-conscious self-consciousness is intolerable, especially when carried to the nth degree--like a box with a picture of a man holding a box with a picture of etc.--and combined with narcissitic aimlessness and a razzle-dazzle contortionist style...
...loser statements, in fact, are probably rationalizations, from the game tears showing through Adlai Stevenson's remarks after he lost the 1952 presidential race (see box) to the naked bitterness of Richard Nixon in 1962, when it seemed that his defeat for the California governorship marked the end of his public life. In politics as well as business, the most common rationalization is that the loser has refused to pay a "price" for winning. Henry Clay, who spent 20 years trying to occupy the White House, finally produced that famous sour grape: "I would rather be right than President...
...star, who in the 1920s vied with Rudolph Valentino as the screen's great Latin lover; of injuries suffered when he was bludgeoned in the bedroom of his home; in Hollywood Hills, Calif. Though only 5 ft. 8 in. tall, the handsome Mexican was a giant at the box office. In his 14-year career, he played opposite such leading ladies as Greta Garbo and Myrna Loy, appeared in scores of films, including The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and Ben-Hur (1926), before fading out in the mid-1930s...