Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that plans were going ahead for the final withdrawal of the Inter-American Peace Force by next week. Some Dominicans feared that the withdrawal would trigger a coup by leftists, by the military, or both. Balaguer evidently did not share that fear. Besides, he knew that if anything did happen, peace-force troops could be recalled within hours...
...contracts come to $650,000. And Abt sees plenty of chance for more. Too much of business management training is "inefficient and outmoded," says Abt, because the trainees are forced to sit idly by and watch others. "People like to act," says Abt. "They like to make something happen." They also like to play games...
...What's beginning to happen in our houses," says ex-Model China Machado, now an editor on Harper's Bazaar, "is that we are developing a Designer's Look." Each designer strives to create an individual personality that comes across in all his clothes; and they range from, say, the kooky inventiveness of Rudi Gernreich to the effortless poise of Ferdinando Sarmi. As to the best U.S. designers, each fashion expert has his preference, but two are universally ranked...
...Santa Claus is to Christmas. It may be a sentimentally cherished myth, but there's nothing like it to make the whole world feel like shopping." Adds Galanos: "It is not enough for a single designer to lower a hem or change a silhouette. It must still happen in Paris to catch...
Such things happen, but in this picture they don't happen in a believable way. There is too much hoke in the violence, too much duh-duh in the dialogue. And the hog stompers, when not actually stomping somebody, are played for cheap laughs as a fright-wigged cast of slum-dumb characters. In real life, man, they are something else...