Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek Cypriot "national guard," composed of anywhere from 15,000 to 40,000 men, under control, curbing the whims of impetuous lower commanders. A few days after his return, a U.N. official complained to Grivas that Greek Cypriot irregulars were firing nightly at Canadian outposts. "It won't happen again," snapped Grivas...
...such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness. Austin Lawyer Arthur ("The Garrulous Greek") Mitchell, who claims to have crammed half the lawyers in Texas, dramatizes the "life" in the law. "I tell them the law is comical, the law is tragic, the law is real," says Mitchell. "The things that happen in law are things that happen to people...
...mind that the more serious disservice to party unity and to party vitality would be to keep quiet about it. If for reasons other than a determination to win in November my party is to be steamrollered into nominating Barry-something I don't believe is going to happen-then at the very least we ought not to kid ourselves about what we are doing...
...people miserable. His victims include Lew Ayres, Bob Cummings and Martha Hyer, a high-priced call girl who is summoned for stardom. To prevent all the plots and subplots from collapsing, Director Edward Dmytryk keeps a narrator warmed up to respond to the question, "How did it all happen?" with quick summaries of Robbins' lip-smacking prose. Thus Scenarist John Michael Hayes leaps 30 to 40 pages at a clip and distills the rest of it in dialogue that ranges from archly metaphoric repartee to raw one-line gags...
Richard III is, except for Hamlet the longest of all the plays; and it is, unlike Hamlet, repetitious, monochromatic, unyielding, and actually quite shallow. It does not leave enough unsaid; in fact, again and again we are told what is going to happen, we see it happen, and then we are told what we have just seen...