Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held in Manhattan, and there is already something of a Tuesday Weld cult, which was partially inspired, paradoxically, by the fact that she has been so good in so many bad films. "She was undervalued year after year," says Roddy McDowall, who starred with her in Lord Love a Duck, one of her less awful movies. As a drum majorette in Pretty Poison, a fine but little-publicized 1968 film, she mixed innocence with evil to chilling effect, etching her character with acid and honey...
...DeBiase, authorities believe, who walked up to Gallo's table in the clam house. Gallo recognized him and cursed, "You son of a bitch," as DeBiase began shooting. The Brooklyn brothers opened fire from the clam bar over the heads of patrons to force everyone to duck for cover. DeBiase and the brothers fled in the confusion, apparently in a car driven by Phil Gambino...
...Shanghai on his way back to Peking, his residence in exile since 1970. There, in the guesthouse that Richard Nixon had occupied two weeks earlier, Sihanouk granted an interview to TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. "You can write," said the Prince, as he offered Schecter hors d'oeuvres of duck and roast pork with his chopsticks, "that you were served by a royal, anti-imperialistic head of state." His chief points...
...Meara, who scarcely wrinkled his Donald Duck bandito T-shirt while putting away Barry, was considered "a tough bastard, real tough" at Boston Latin. But Gauthier, one of the more rugged members of the freshman hockey team, "usually hits what he aims at," according to Barry...
Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...