Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. Based on valid speculation, this science-fiction saga imagines what might happen to a U.S. astronaut marooned on the red planet...
...this time, and that means plenty is going to happen, none of it original. The characters, except for a regulation Blimp (Stewart Granger), are stir-type stereotypes: a bomb-tossing boyo (Mickey Rooney) from the I.R.A., a Little Caesar (Raf Vallone) with eyes that smoke like gun barrels, a twitchy-faced psychopath (Henry Silva) so hipped on homicide that he murders babies when he runs out of adults. What's more, the plot is a weary old war horse: the villainous heroes, who fight at the start to save their own skins, fight to the finish to save...
Manuel Greenhill, manager of Folklore Productions, which was to sponsor the Boston concert, said he had been unable to wait for the results of MacColl's appeal and had canceled the appearance. He said it was a "sad commentary on the State Department that such a thing should happen to two wonderful people...
...squalid home life, with the kids sniffling, the wash on the line and mommy savaging daddy. No one, in fact, slices life with a sharper eye than Bellow. But on the whole, the new novel is disappointing. Moses E. Herzog, teacher-scholar, is everybody's door mat. Things happen to him; he does nothing. He is tossed out of his own home by his wife and her lover. He is bullied by lawyers, psychiatrists, cops, a priest and friends. At the beginning of the novel, he is at least dashing off undelivered letters to all sorts of people, living...
...membership of the Committee reflects the realities of African politics. Tanganyika and the Congo were chosen undoubtedly because of their geographical proximity to southern Africa, while the three countries having the largest armies, Algeria, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Republic, also happen to be members...