Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story, moves quickly because Ellison writes in a clean, brief, violent prose. In A Boy And His Dog, Jones slows down the action, lengthening scenes and drawing out the conclusion with wasted footage. Jones also films the blasted landscapes and ruins of the future listlessly where a Kubrick would exploit the opportunity to examine the new world with camera work...
Although the International Court of Justice declared South Africa's continued occupation of the U.N. protectorate illegal after World War II, South Africa has continued to impose its policies of separation of the races on the territory, and to exploit Namibia's resources to provide raw materials for South African refineries. Last November, Vorster asked the Security Council for six more months in which to give Namibia full autonomy before a boycott was imposed. Although the U.N. seems to have extended this period of grace indefinitely, the black African nations have increased their agitation for a boycott...
...Neither Neal nor Tommy is what you would call power type runners," Restic said, "but they make up for their lack of size with their great quickness"--a quality Restic is sure to exploit with his multiflex offense...
...brutal efficiency, few terrorist organizations can match the Japanese extremists who call themselves the Red Army. In the past five years the Red Army has hijacked planes, attacked embassies and murdered dozens of innocent people in various parts of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Its most infamous exploit was the wanton slaughter of 26 tourists at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport in June 1972. Last week in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, five Red Army members stormed a 14-story downtown office building where more than 1,000 people were at work. Spraying gunfire around the ninth...
...archetypal armchair detective, who had been portrayed on film by Actors Tony Randall, Albert Finney and others, had finally finished his long career. Old, infirm and wheelchair-ridden, he would meet his end in her next novel, Curtain -or Poirot's Last Case. Although Poirot's final exploit was originally written in 1940 and locked away until now, the business-wise author declined to reveal any details, preferring to keep them a mystery until Curtain's publication this fall...