Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster...
Barren Rock. In New Delhi illusions are dying fast. Gone is the belief that Chinese expansionism need not be taken seriously, that, in Nehru's words, China could not really want to wage a major war for "barren rock." Going too, is the conviction that the Soviet Union has...
The boot was short, but not disastrously so. The disaster came after the kick. Yale halfback John Cirie took the ball and started to cut to his right. Much to his surprise, and greatly to the astonishment of the stands, no Harvard man came up to block his pass.
In contrast to the virtually non-existent offense, Crimson defensive play sparkled, as it had to if Harvard was to avoid disaster. Fullbacks Lew Williams and Terry Winslow cleared the ball time after time, breaking up Yale plays with constant precision. The real standout performer, though, was captain Tony Davies...
Virginia easily approved a scheme to allow two-fifths of the general assembly to make temporary laws if nuclear attack wiped out a majority of legislators. But Rhode Island passed a measure that sets up an emergency chain of command in case such disaster obliterates top officials. The surprising opposition...