Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Man from Rio is the most mature statement of the BAH Hypothesis. Belmondo is pounded in a barroom brawl, falls out of an airplane, is manipulated by feminine caprice, but throughout acts only to save his woman (as always, beautiful). Where others are uncool, Belmondo is cool-ly uncool. As Lillian Gish would say in different circumstances, "My Hero...
...Harder." Last weekend the police came by the Murray home to see if Susan was there. She was, but since the cops had no warrant, Madalyn had no intention of turning her in. The discussion led to a push here, a shove there and finally to a full-fledged brawl, as neighbors shouted, "Kill them! Hit 'em harder! Get that bitch...
...Johnson Administration, which would like to soften its enforcement of the embargo, expects the Chamber's resolution to help it get some amendments to the 15-year-old Export Control Act. But there is strong support for the embargo in Congress, and what promises to be a noisy brawl over amendments to the act will begin as soon as the civil rights fight is settled...
...Riverhead, Long Island, was hearing a repeat of one of society's best late late shows: the house-wrecking escapade of some 65 young bloods after the Southampton coming-out party of Philadelphia Debutante Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill (TIME, Sept. 13). Seven combat veterans of the after-party brawl were hailed to court on charges of "malicious mischief" in causing $6,000 worth of damage to a beach house Fernanda's stepfather Donald Leas had rented to put up a bunch of the boys for the weekend...
...Nasty Brawl. Unfortunately, the Van Doos will not become fully operational until the U.N. "terms of reference" are hammered out and other national troop contingents arrive. So when trouble exploded last week at the Turkish Cypriot village of Ghaziveran on the north coast, it was the British who had again to march into the breach. Ghaziveran was a particularly nasty little brawl: the villagers, fearing a Greek Cypriot attack, had built roadblocks outside of town. Hundreds of Greek Cypriot "regulars" surrounded them and demanded removal of the roadblocks. When the villagers obeyed, the Greeks demanded the surrender of all arms...