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...attainment of political power by democratic means. And in June 1975, when the PC boasted control of five of Italy's regions and control of three of its four major cities, the party had ostensibly accomplished what Togliatti had set out to do: it had moved to the brink of political power...
Barbra Streisand drove costume fitters to the brink during the filming of Funny Girl by continually changing the padding in her bras. Playing Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, Rex Harrison allowed his own skinny frame to be beefed up with foam rubber, so much that the daggers kept bouncing off him during the death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance...
...Oldenburg does not push his conceptualizing and image generating into such an abyss; he only takes it up to the brink, and looks over. The view is technicolored, panoramic...
Since the Middle East belongs in the an-tagonistic half of detente, a successful intervention would present the Soviets with a fait accompli difficult to undo or even challenge without bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. Politically, Russian credibility would take a severe beating. Not only would Russian allies, Syria and Iraq, be sandwiched by the Israelis on one side and the Americans on the other, but the value of a Russian connection would be thrown into doubt throughout the region. According to this view, a decisive show of force in the Gulf would go a long...
After months of increasing tension and in spite of anguished pleas from five Arab chiefs of state, Algeria and Morocco last week were on the brink of war for control of the former Spanish Sahara. By week's end a sharp and bloody battalion-level battle near the oasis of Amgala (see map) had apparently ended in Morocco's favor. Reports from the scene were sketchy, but the Algerian press service spoke of "violent combat," while Moroccan officials, claiming victory, conceded "many dead...