Word: gales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clouds in a Gale. The play is Williams' most ambitious departure from realism; it also makes enormous imaginative demands on the director. In 1953, when Camino Real was first presented, Williams indicated the scope of those demands in his preface: "My desire was to give audiences my own sense of something wild and unrestricted that ran like water in the mountains, or clouds changing shape in a gale, or the continually dissolving and transforming images of a dream...
...since the Bismarck has there been such a sea hunt. In the teeth of a gale that whipped the azure Mediterranean into an ash-gray cauldron of 20-foot waves, five Israeli-manned gunboats scooted to Haifa last week on a 3,000-mile dash from the northern French port of Cherbourg. At various points, they were tracked by French reconnaissance planes, an R.A.F. Canberra from Malta, Soviet tankers, the radar forests of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, television cameramen and even Italian fishermen. From a distance, the world watched with emotions ranging from amusement to outrage. In a twist...
...three-year mark of 51 set in 1946 by Army's legendary Glenn Davis. He impressed one scout as "a crusher, with good balance-one of the great competitors of the '60s. He does it all the hard way." Though he lacks the blinding speed of Gale Sayers or O. J. Simpson, Owens is a driving, slashing runner who, as one scout puts it, "can carry the ball 55 times a game and five-yard you to death." If durable is the word for Owens, slippery is the term for Pittman, who racked...