Word: hara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerusalem Committee, a 25-member international panel including such renowned architects and city planners as Philip Johnson, Louis I. Kahn, Buckminster Fuller and Italy's Bruno Zevi. When the committee reviewed the blueprints last year, its members were appalled. Zevi called the beehive units an example of "collective hara-kiri," and Kahn complained: "I don't see the principles behind the master plan." When the committee discussed the master plan with Kollek two months ago, it attacked the project's matchbox buildings, haphazard community planning and dehumanization...
...years. His great victory was "Operation Hawk," in which the troops of his friend General Somoza (whose family has ruled Nicaragua for 34 years) and the U.S. Southern Command participated. (Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. cit., p. 28) As the Vice President, Rojas, bragged in his magazine La Hara, at least one village was napalmed in this action. The guerrillas were driven...
...face as he hugged his son during a break on the Hollywood set. John Ethan Wayne, 8, had just stolen a scene during the filming of The Million-Dollar Kidnaping in the role of grandson to his real father, John Wayne, 63, and Actress Maureen O'Hara. Said Richard Boone, cast as the leader of the bandits who kidnap the boy: "Duke, you and I know acting's hard, but nobody told the boy-he just went in there...
...soldiers who tried to overthrow the government, it foreshadowed the disastrous Tojo regime of four years later. Mishima had written a short story, Patriotism, about that revolt, and in 1965 he made it into a movie. He himself acted the lead role of a young army lieutenant who commits hara-kiri with his wife after a night of passionate lovemaking. Writing about the experience afterward, Mishima referred to it as "the ultimate dream of my life...
...genius for the complicated aural mix and a weakness for the overblown style-a weakness this time kept under control. Ringo plays on the album, and so do Nashville's Pete Drake and England's Eric Clapton. Identified in the credits as the George O'Hara-Smith Singers is a choir of Beat-le-sounding experts. That is Harrison's little joke. All the voices are George's, carefully overdubbed one at a time. Bob Dylan's influence can be felt everywhere. Their joint effort, I'd Have You Anytime (music by Harrison...