Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small battles, peril to Dale's virtue ("Prepare her for my pleasure," intones Ming at one point), sundry bondage fantasies. The high points are a whip fight staged on a wildly tilting platform and a concluding conflict that features an attack by the Hawkmen, hearty barbarians who flap about on giant wings. Max Von Sydow has a good time as Ming, and Ornella Muti, as his daughter, is simply gorgeous. All in all, Flash Gordon is as good an approximation of the hard-edged, gaudy comic-book style as one is likely...
...want to think about. With increased frequency, the New York Times's front page quotes from documents "made available to the Times." By whom? Not stated. That was part of the bargain. Motivated by what? Also not stated. Last week one such leak created a damaging flap around Illinois' Charles Percy, who is first in line to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After more than nine hours of talks with the highest Soviet leaders in Moscow, Percy predicted that the two nations would soon be discussing arms control again. Brezhnev and Reagan, he said, were...
...figure like Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first accredited woman doctor in the U.S. But the writers' list includes quite unimportant figures like Vita Sackville-West and Agnes Smedley, while ignoring real heroines of literature like the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. What has caused the real flap, however, is Chicago's relentless concentration on the pudenda...
...flap over the Dial grew, the U.S. Postal Service at week's end retreated from its earlier decision to allow the Dial's sponsoring stations to use their cheap mailing privileges to distribute the magazine. Instead, Public Broadcasting Communications Inc. must now apply for its own nonprofit mail permit. Vows Dial Publisher Morton Bailey Jr.: "We're going to fight this thing to the very end. We're going to play hardball on this because we're right." As Bailey comes to the plate, however, he is likely to face some smoking fastballs...
...presidency. One such episode does not a campaign make or break; it is only a fragment of the image of a man as President, an image that the public will gradually construct out of many pieces, some deeply personal, as the campaign proceeds. Yet the China flap stands as a warning to Reagan: he is now in an arena where new disciplines of precision and perceptions apply...