Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution, the senior prom...
...Communist-supplied weapons, mainly Soviet, were still wrapped in their wooden packing crates-a reminder of the fresh arsenals flowing into the frontline states. Among the prize exhibits was a deadly 14.5-mm. antiaircraft gun with glistening gold-and red-tipped bullets. There was also a Czech-made land mine of Bakelite, undetectable with any of the usual metal devices used by the army. Like the other arms on display, the weapons were newer than the Rhodesians' equipment...
...years ago this week, the Six-Day War erupted. In its most extraordinary military triumph, the Israeli army reunited the divided Holy City of Jerusalem, decisively defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and occupied huge swatches of Arab land-the Sinai, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank...
...land of Scortch, peopled by animalistic mutants, revives the lost art of war and attacks Montagar, a pastoral realm of elves and gentle wizards. "They have weapons and technology," an elf says of the attackers. "We only have love." Bakshi's visual effects at times are striking - stylized war footage superimposed on animated battles, pastel medievalism for Montagar, an updated, bombed-out Piranesi look for Scortch...
...made her mark in television, directing the first 22 episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show that was nominated for an Emmy. But now Joan Darling has switched to the no woman's land of feature film. Her movie is First Love, the story of a young man (played by William Katt, last seen in Carrie) who loses his girl (Susan Dey) to an older man. "I want all the people who see this picture to remember what it was like to fall in love for the first time," says Darling...