Word: classics
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...OVERCOAT. A shy office clerk (Roland Bykov) trades his rags for the mantle of tragedy in this exquisite Russian version of Gogol's classic...
...classic use of U.S. military intervention, has been to enforce respect for American lives and property. Thus, in 1801, marines landed in Tripoli to free the crew of a seized U.S. ship. In 1849, a U.S. naval force debarked in Turkey to gain the release of an imprisoned American. In 1851, U.S. troops intervened on Johanna Island, off East Africa, to exact redress for the imprisonment of an American whaling captain...
...Classic Understatement. In the debate, Donnelly argued that nationalization was hardly relevant in a modern industrial society. Wyatt acidly added that the White Paper would turn steel "into a branch of the civil service. It is written as though the last 13 years [since the Tories denationalized steel] had never happened. It has no new ideas, and instead of helping the industry, will actually hinder it." Besides, he added, "there is no urgency to nationalize steel at this moment" in the country. It was one of those classic British understatements. That morning's Gallup poll showed that only...
...OVERCOAT. In Gogol's classic tale, translated exquisitely to film, a clerical nonentity (Roland Bykov) loses his life discovering that clothes make...
...spring, when the MDC began to take test borings, the somnolent Cambridge community finally became aware of the heinous goings on at Beason Hill. But the apparent falt accempll threw everyone into a dispairing hair-pulling tizzy. Although local residents resolved to oppose the project, it looked like a classic case of post felony barn-door locking...