Word: fanged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have disappeared and are believed to be either dead or toiling in remote labor camps. Mao's China is indeed a land where, as Ma Ssu-tsung put it, "art is a prisoner...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
...Snyder found, but with a tourniquet around the leg it stayed in place almost twice as long. Crosscutting and suction removed very little venom, so Surgeon Snyder decided that the most effective way to get rid of it was to cut out a disk of flesh around the fang marks...
...four make war on Raza's remote desert stronghold is the raw meat of The Professionals, and there hasn't been a livelier western whoop-up since Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time...
...fighting is "the Rock," a jagged, 750-ft. fang of granite that thrusts upward at the intersection of three river valleys and two enemy trails. During July's Operation Hastings, the Marines established a reconnaissance post atop the Rock, and a lone sniper fed by airdrops of C rations controlled the area. Now it is a Marine battalion command post, under almost steady siege. Across from the Rock rears the Razorback-a steep ridge whose sides are pocked with caves dug by the Japanese in World War II, but now occupied by North Vietnamese. Several hundred yards below...