Word: derring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes for a drowsy, pretty evening. But it is time for Bonynge to get out of the archives. With Esclarmonde he revealed the rich sensuality in Sutherland's voice. Why not give her a real part, like the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier...
...Salisbury on Nov. 3, declaring he could not afford to waste time sitting around Geneva "twiddling my thumbs." In what seemed a calculated insult to the blacks, he left negotiations for his government in the hands of Rhodesia's sarcastic and hard-lining Foreign Minister, Pieter van der Byl. By last week, it was becoming increasingly clear that unless there is some progress soon, the conference could well collapse...
...counsel in Hue, Hood had punched a Vietnamese official for deprecating his own people. Dismissed, he wandered to London where he has set up house with a bunch of almost comical terrorists: Mayo, a rich woman who works for the Irish Republican Army Provisionals and has stolen a Van der Weyden self-portrait which no one seems to want back; Murf, a boy who makes bombs; and Brodie, his girlfriend who plants them. Together, they form a family of sorts, arguing about what to watch on television while a room full of weapons sits upstairs. They are a family with...
...does from giving them away. The novel turns on Hood's discovery that Mayo's stolen painting really belongs to Lady Arrow. All action, Hood sees, is political and all politics, drama. This is true not only of the IRA's schemes but also of his own. In Van der Weyden's artistic portrait of a man of action, Hood had come to recognize his own face...
Romantic Dream. One of the film's high points occurs at the senior prom, where the star jock (William Katt, a young actor of near Redfordian charm) has been gulled into dating Carrie in or der to set her up for her fall. He begins to respond to her unaffectedly, and Carrie is suddenly living a dream of romance long cherished. Their waltz, full of discovery and promise, is a very touching thing. It is especially poignant since the audience knows what those vicious girls are planning and suspects what havoc Carrie will unleash in response...