Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precariously and was rewarded by a blown kiss from "the maestro," as he is known to his adoring veteran crew. Fellini is a masterly politician, roaming the crowded sound stage to flirt shamelessly with the women and backslap the men. Says he: "I am the captain of a glorious ocean liner. My crew and I work together to make a big joke of the crossing...
This takes on a particularly heavy irony at the end, when we see Elizabeth seated on the throne. Everyone in the audience knows just how glorious the reign of Henry's daughter...
Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand received a standing ovation from an audience of 1300 yesterday at Northeastern University after telling them, "Make yourself heard. Speak out against altruism on any scale. Honor the hard, harsh, glorious reality of individual freedom...
Callaghan's plan is most logical. Logic, however, will mean nothing if Smith's backers decide-as some fear they might-that acceptance of reality is much less glorious than a shooting struggle against ultimate defeat...
...provisional capital of the F.N.L.A.-UNITA government. Despite UNITA claims that it had mounted a tough fight, Savimbi's forces had actually evacuated the city several hours before the M.P.L.A. entered it, possibly to avoid civilian casualties in an armed confrontation. A day later, Luanda radio announced the "glorious capture" of the key Atlantic ports of Lobito and Benguela, which with the capture of the east central Angolan town of Luso late in the week gave the M.P.L.A. full control of the strategic Benguela Railway, which spans Angola from the Atlantic to the Zaïre border. The M.P.L.A...