Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...petition asking the regime to reopen one of Gorky's 100 or so closed churches; many are now in use as bakeries, museums or warehouses. According to the petition, the Gorky churches are so crowded on Sundays that their congregations overflow onto the streets and old people faint in the crush...
...Loved Me. Roger Moore may make a great James Bond to simply look at, but Connerly's sheer style continues to be missed. Big on ever more ingenious gimmickry for Her Majesty's superspy. The Spy Who Loved Me will delight devoted 007 fans, but it remains a faint shadow of its earlier forerunners. The film never asks to be taken seriously, but Moore's amazing feats and affected bravado wear thin after awhile. Where we once gasped oohs and ahs we can now only giggle...
...maverick chief Mao Tse-tung and his redoubtable partner Chu Teh. Sporadic news reports and travelers shuttling back and forth between the White and the Red Areas conveyed mixed impressions of Mao, a peasant rebel and people's defender with a modern revolutionary consciousness. She had only a faint idea of his appearance and no notion of his personality. Like other recruits to Yenan she was fascinated by differences among the leading comrades and became aware of Mao's aura of aloofness-his Olympian air, as some called...
Restless, Chiang Ch'ing arose, beckoned me to follow, and motioned her bodyguard to lead the way through the tall doors that opened in to the pitch-black night. Obviously perplexed, [the aide] reached for his flashlight and plunged ahead into the humid night air and faint moonlight. She followed him and I her. Chiang Ch'ing had deliberately led us out of reach of the indoor microphones [two had been placed before each of them to record the interviews...
There is an engagingly sinister quality about Trudeau's sharp features, just the faint whiff of Mephistopheles presiding over a steaming cauldron. But he was mellow that day. Jimmy Carter had asked Trudeau to advise him as he moved into the murky world of international politics. "Now he's asked you and 215 million Americans," chortled a guest. Trudeau chuckled. Yes, Carter might have been trying to flatter him. That was often done in this business. But Trudeau's conclusion was that Carter was sincere. Carter, insisted the Prime Minister, was a man obviously at ease with...