Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actors are plainly demoralized. Quinn, who plays a head-shaven Kublai Khan, just sort of sits there on his throne looking like Yul Brynner with a nasty case of jaundice. Welles, who plays a Venetian savant, is all dressed up to look like Leonardo da Vinci, but then he queers the pitch by muttering something about a navigational device he calls an "astrolobe." Horst Bucholz, who plays the acrobattling hero, obviously doesn't have the thighs for this sort of work, but he makes up for that with some of the niftiest karate ever seen in medieval Persia...
...Supreme Court's school-desegregation decree have white Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
What bothers MODEBRAS most is next October's indirect presidential election. ARENA'S candidate, former War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, seems certain to win, since the balloting will take place in Congress where the government party has a large majority. MODEBRAS demands direct nationwide balloting for the presidency, but ARENA is not yet prepared to put its popularity to such a test. As a result, the opposition has decided to embarrass Castello Branco by refusing to enter a presidential candidate. Says one MODEBRAS member: "Any sort of opposition candidacy would help the government present itself, particularly...
...Vieira da Silva...
...ingenuity. The American style reflects a questing spirit, a desire for change and investigation, an irreverence for authority that has lasted since 1776, a built-in dissatisfaction with the status quo. The American system is a constant seeking of practical means to an end. "Americans," says French Humorist Pierre Da-ninos, "adapted naturally to the modern environment. They seem to be born into this age, born to make long-distance calls, hop international flights or act in films...