Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jeers of the opposition. Pleadingly, the nation's President, Guillermo León Valencia, 55, raised his hands for quiet. "Liar!" howled the opposition. "Assassin!" As TV cameras flashed the scene to fascinated viewers, Valencia fought to be heard. "There are slaves," he shouted into the din, "who despite their freedom hold a nostalgia for chains...
ZULU. A band of British redcoats faces 4,000 proud Zulu warriors in a bloody battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Four Feathers and Gunga Din...
ZULU. A band of British redcoats faces 4,000 proud Zulu warriors in a bloody battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Four Feathers and Gunga Din...
Eloquent Sermon. It all started a year ago, when the easy charm of bossa nova had been drowned in a din of bongo drums, maracas and raucous studio bands. Getz met with Singer-Guitarist Joāo Gilberto, Brazil's "pope of the bossa nova," and decided to cut one "true" bossa nova album. Gilberto's wife Astrud, who had never sung outside the kitchen before, was enlisted as an afterthought to sing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema that Joāo sang in Portuguese. This spring, when it was felt that the odor...
Improving on history, Director Cy Endfield has made a battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Font-Feathers and Gunga Din. His characters are swiftly etched stereotypes, a drawback easily overlooked once the action begins to surge against the eye-filling sweep of Natal's brooding, beautifully photographed Drakensberg Mountains. Soon an insidious clacking sound echoes through the surrounding hills. It is the primitive, awful din of short-stabbing spears hammered against rawhide shields. Now the threat becomes palpable. Across the horizon stretches a line of warriors clad in animal skins and necklaces of baboon teeth...