Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't count), is in some ways the best of the lot. It is by all odds the broadest-which is to say wackiest, not sexiest. Indeed, the ladies of sinister sexuality (Jill St. John, Lana Wood) look like randy and overweight cheerleaders beside the likes of Domino and Pussy Galore. They furnish 007 with a few pleasant pit stops, but the real adventure lies elsewhere...
Back in The Fifties, white rock and roll musicians rarely wrote their own material. While Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Fats Domino were making their reputations and fortunes not only from their singing and instrumental work but also from their genius as songwriters, the major white talents of the time--the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holy, Jerry Lee Lewis, and, of course. Elvis--had little facility for composing and were therefore dependent upon full-time songwriters, who lacked either the desire or the ability to be performers themselves...
...wanted to return to their colonial status. The British would not hear of it, so the plucky Anguillans, 6,000 strong, proclaimed their independence and severed all ties with the mother country. Gravely, Wilson launched "Operation Sheepskin" and sent in troops, later reinforced by 80 policemen. It was the domino theory, Whitehall solemnly insisted. If one territory were allowed to go its own way, all the rest would want to go theirs...
...sought ways to avert international pressure for talks. It continually withheld from the American people a full disclosure of its increasing military moves against North Viet Nam, but often briefed Hanoi, Peking and Moscow on precisely what it intended. Moreover, the documents, while showing a stubborn allegiance to the domino theory of Viet Nam's critical significance despite CIA doubts, also reveal a shifting rationale for the massive U.S. commitment...
South Viet Nam and Laos did? The reply took issue with the conventional application of the domino theory. "With the possible exception of Cambodia," said the CIA, "it is likely that no nation in the area would quickly succumb to Communism." The spread of Communism would not be "inexorable...