Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between Arthur and his half-brother/son (through incest) Mordred. Alas, the film stumbles between episodes, failing to connect the careful pattern of events coherently. The numerous battle scenes--exciting, if a bit gratuitously gory--always run too long. Even the tone of the film vacilates between tongue-in-cheek humor, and at other times, terrible solemnity. Perhaps, the scope of the legend overwhelmed Boorman. But whatever the reason for Excalibur's spasmodic quality, its lack of cohesion prevents it from achieving the epic effect to which it aspires...
...training for thousands of Salvadoran troops at camps in Panama or the U.S., to a plan for sending in as many as 100 advisers, who would train Salvadoran troops within the country and even accompany them on combat missions. Coordinating this review was a task force headed by James Cheek, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and a career Foreign Service officer. Cheek's task force reported to an interagency group that included representatives from State, Defense, the CIA and the National Security Council...
...which runs the gamut from pulsating rock to bits of C & W, some classy jazz, a haunting violin solo, and, for atmosphere, is orchestrated to include a kind of bubbling woodblock. Sometimes the music enhances the mood, and sometimes it undercuts it, commenting on the action. Frequently tongue-in-cheek, it is always imaginative and melodious, orchestrated with pizazz and performed with panache by 12 musicians (including Ivers on harmonica, who can be viewed in full light during the curtain call...
...expected him to be statesmanlike and cautious," said a Kremlin watcher in London, "but he went even further-both in what he said and what he didn't say. Wherever he could, he avoided the abrasive issues in Soviet-American relations. He was consciously turning the other cheek...
Other white South Africans kept their tongues firmly in cheek. Satirist Alexander de Kok of the Sunday Express wrote of a nationalist friend who had called the finding "an Afrikaner master plan." Said Kok: "What better way to pass power peacefully into black hands than to prove scientifically that those who hold it now are as black as the rest." Kok also wondered why Afrikaner historians had taken so many years to make the discovery, unless "as many Afrikaners say, people of mixed blood are slow thinkers." When a black Johannesburg gardener asked a white what he thought about...