Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet tendered their resignations en masse. Their aim: to undercut Northern influence in the government and solidify a Southern bloc of soldiers and civilians for next year's national elections. The seven dissidents reasoned that Ky would do anything to avoid a messy internal dispute on the eve of the Manila Conference. "The general idea," said one Southern Cabinet Minister, "was to force the government to resolve our problems before Manila...
Plop No. 1 is a Garden of Eden spoof adapted from Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. Eve chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...
...house to dig out potential Taft voters and get them registered. The organization is even using a computer to expedite the footwork, and make sure that each canvasser is used to the best advantage. Each of the 15 zones will have a battery of ten telephones working on election eve and election day to remind the right voters to go to the polls. These old-fashioned precinct labors have nothing to do with the issues, but on them may hang the continuance of an old political dynasty or the survival of the Congressman who calls himself the "ambassador from...
...moved quickly. With tears in his eyes, he made a passionate appeal to the dissenters not to destroy government unity on the eve of the Manila Conference, got them to agree to pocket their resignations for the time being. But the crisis was merely postponed. The southerners have put a price on their continued collaboration with Ky: an end to "northern domination," and the dismissal of General Loan, whose tough tactics, they insist, give the regime "the image of a police state...
Stickier questions of taste arise in a gold-filtered Eden, where Adam (Michael Parks) takes shape in the sod, starts poking around Paradise eying Eve (Ulla Bergryd) and her apple while an athletic camera plays now-you-see-it, oh-you-don't with their anatomy. Such defoliated innocence fills an audience with awe, not for the miracle of mankind but for the skill of split-second cutting...