Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post-Tito period. Carter had made the statement before, but none of the newsmen covering him had made a big issue of it until keen-witted Columnist Joseph Kraft asked Carter about it during the final TV debate. Ford pounced on it, arguing correctly that it was a grave mistake to rule out options in advance. Henry Kissinger followed up on TV, saying that Carter did not understand the "art of foreign policy." Carter tried to counter Ford by declaring: "The world is tired of bluffs and blustering where you insinuate you are going to send troops to some country...
...worst failing of this production is that it violates Oscar Wilde's own "art for art's sake" aesthetic. "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing," Gwendolen asserts at one point. In this version of Wilde's farce, the latter remains a poor subsitute for the former...
...hardly been tamped down on the grave of Mafia King Carlo Gambino last week when a motel near New York's J.F.K. Airport was the scene of an extraordinary meeting. Packed into the basement room 100 strong were the capos (captains), consiglieres (counselors), under bosses and bosses of the five New York Mafia clans that Gambino had ruled directly. Attending, too, were some honored guests from afar; for it was the patient Don Carlo who had maintained order among the 26 families of the national Mafia combine. His word was taken as final judgment on their affairs and squabbles...
...with inventing the split-level coffin. Instead of leaving his victims for police to find, he would have them taken to a Brooklyn funeral home and put in the lower compartment of a coffin. On top would be someone who died of natural causes. The pair went to the grave together. At one time or another Bonanno has plotted to kill at least four Mafia chiefs, including Gambino, who finally got rid of Bonanno by agreeing to give him the California rackets if he would leave New York...
...Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these...