Word: colonizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breakaway Biafra. The essay topics are rarely hard-news musts, and never flunk the Rooney colon test. Andy says he can spot an overly sober TV treatise merely by the colon in its title; for ex ample, "Somaliland: Case History of a People," His specialty is the light TV essay that extracts the significant from the commonplace. Does it bother him that Reasoner gets all the glory and earns about $200,000 compared with his $60,000? "Harry has never actually sent me for coffee," Andy jokes, "but he often says, 'If you're going to the cafeteria...
...disintegration of a family. Hence the title, Histoire, which means both history and story-an indication of the trompe 1'oeil that gives the novel its mystifying rhythm of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't. Swimming through the pages with nothing stronger than a colon to slow them are fragments of memories, conversations, odors, tastes, tactile sensations and dim images from old postcards. Somewhere below, finning almost motionlessly, is the suicide of a cousin beloved by the narrator. He may or may not be responsible for the death because he may or may not have...
...producer of his show, Russ Bensley, and CBS Cameraman John Smith. Neither Smith nor Bensley, who was filling in for an injured CBS sound man at the time, was seriously hurt. But three days later, after evacuation to Danang, Producer Bensley was wounded again during a rocket attack. His colon was ruptured and his spleen had to be removed. "The irony of it," said CBS Correspondent Don Webster, reporting from the hospital, "is that for several weeks now we've been planning to do a report about the new war in Viet Nam and on the fact that Viet...
...extracted in minute quantities by highly complex processes from vats in which countless billions of colon bacteria, Escherichia coli, have been grown...
...state occasion in Buenos Aires' majestic Colon Theater. In honor of visiting Japanese Crown Prince Akihito, the city had scheduled a gala performance of Stravinsky's ballet Rite of Spring, and Juan Carlos Ongania, the retired general who seized power last year, had agreed to attend. Ongania was not enjoying himself. In the middle of the performance, he rose from the presidential box and ushered his wife and 28-year-old daughter Sara to the rear. Rite of Spring, he informed Mayor Eugenio Schettini the next day, was a dirty ballet and should not be permitted in Buenos...