Word: greats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French Origins. It was not always so. The general public has long regarded movies as entertainment, not literature. Great and powerful films arrived as unpredictably as meteors and were gone before they could be measured. The rest was forgettable glitter...
Crossing south of Great Bitter Lake, they met an Israeli patrol, and in a three-hour firefight near Suez, four Israelis and one Egyptian were wounded. In an other raid, south of El Qantara, the Egyptians unsuccessfully stormed an Israeli army post, losing three men (Egypt claimed 22 Israelis killed). In a third attack, Egyptian commandos tried to breach a road leading to the strategic Mitla Pass. The attacking Egyptian force was repulsed after killing one Israeli private...
...great American hot dog found a champion last month in Mrs. Virginia Knauer, President Nixon's adviser on consumer affairs. Now that other national staple, the hamburger, has picked up an ally in Bess Myerson Grant, New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs. The onetime (1945) Miss America has discovered that burger beef, like hot-dog meat, is being adulterated with all sorts of things: soy proteins, starchy flour, cereal and chemical additives. As a matter of fact, 156 out of 421 New York restaurants checked by her 46 inspectors were suspected of serving "shamburgers...
...family's saloon in Bellflower, Calif. He fought anyway, lost a split decision and ended up in a cast with three cracked vertebrae. Nonetheless, he went into the Frazier bout with only two losses in 37 fights; he was billed by his followers as the first great white hope since Rocky Marciano. "Screw white hopes," Quarry snapped. "I'm a fighter...
...recouped much of his prestigé. Still, there remains some doubt as to whether Kubrick has retained his ability to create characters of psychological breadth and substance. His newest project-a life of Napoleon-should answer that question. Orson Welles' old appraisal still holds: "Kubrick is a great director who has not yet made his great film." ∙ MIKE NICHOLS. Unlike Kubrick and Perm, Nichols arrived in Hollywood with formidable riches and reputation. As an entertainer he had been (with Elaine May) a cutting satirist. As a Broadway director he was known as a Midas: everything he directed became...