Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vladivostok is the home port of the Soviet Pacific fleet. The harbor freezes in the winter but is kept open by icebreakers. Naval war games have frequently been staged offshore. That fact, combined with the heavy concentration of vessels in its harbor and the presence of a missile base, explains why the city has been out of bounds to foreigners...
...Yale beats our Harvard fleet, it's that cellar...
...result, by the standards of the unconverted, is pretty tacky. Lee is fleet and exciting as ever in action, and amusing enough playing an Oriental bumpkin in the wicked city. But Revenge appears to have been edited barehanded, possibly by a few karate chops. The actors, whose performances are as broad as the Manchurian border to begin with, are further hampered by a brutal job of dubbing: superimposed English, phrases spilling out of the sound track long after their lips have ceased to move...
...helped by the evidence that the commandos have not abandoned terrorism as a tactic. Just as the Rabat summit ended, three fedayeen were caught crossing into Israel from Lebanon; they were shot to death after an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers. The Israelis reacted predictably by dispatching a fleet of small warships up the Mediterranean coast. The boats stood three miles offshore from a Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh in Lebanon and bombarded it, killing five Palestinians and injuring...
...scenes are familiar ones. A fleet wide receiver flings the football skyward after snaring a game-winning touchdown pass...A jubilant gang of baseball players mobs their pitcher after that final World Series victory...A triumphant tennis player hurdles the net to offer his opponent the glad-hand after whistling one last ace past him. Victory in its many guises--ah, how sweet...