Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write: "By any standard of rational judgment, the monarchy, of course, is no longer necessary. However, there is a difference between a nation's rational and emotional needs." Presumably, the emotional needs of the U.S. are satisfied by having Princess Kay of the Milky Way, the Cherry Blossom Queen, the Queen of the Snows, the Raspberry Queen, the Rose Bowl Queen and thousands of other pseudo-royalty...
...premiership; the young now revere Lumumba the leftist and revile his enemy. Whites still recall the man so cultured and well-spoken that many colonials considered him a "black European." But because Moise Tshombe relied to such an extent on white advice and white arms, his name is no longer beautiful in much of black Africa. Indeed, like that of Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, it has become in some places on the continent a synonym for traitor...
...simply stops; Ophuls intercuts an extraordinary series of medium and long shots of her stationary figure atop a hill. With this cessation of motion, she is dead--and indeed Ophuls dissolves to a shot of her coffin. A romantic life demanded her continuous motion, and when she can longer sustain it, her position in her surroundings is fixed--and she is dead...
...movies (including the Andy Hardy series with Mickey Rooney, Meet Me in St. Louis and Easter Parade) after making Oz, she had established herself as the best of a bevy of girlish filmland warblers that included Gloria Jean, Deanna Durbin and Jane Powell. But she could no longer handle the pressure of stardom. She began showing up for work late or sick, then did not show up at all. She was suspended once, twice, and finally, in 1950, fired for good...
...year, Ferrari's single-seat Formula 1 cars have broken down in three major races - Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix of Spain and of South Africa. The laborious production of about 700 handmade cars a year - which sell for an average $12,000 each in Italy-can no longer sustain the rising cost of racing...