Word: lording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord Thomson of Fleet, Toronto-born owner of 125 newspapers and 150 magazines from the Austin Daily Herald to the Bangkok Post, has long sought one crowning jewel: a major London daily. The Times of London, a paper of rich tradition but modest circulation (286,000), has long needed one sterling resource: money. Last week the British press lord got together with the Establishment's most authoritative daily (motto: "For Top People") in a deal that brings new prestige to 72-year-old Thomson and fresh power to the 181 -year-old Times...
...equivalent to being swallowed by a whale-a bored viewer will nonetheless feel twinges of gratitude. After all, it might have been worse. Producer Dino De Laurentiis originally intended to tackle the entire Old Testament, hiring every writer, actor and director in creation for a series of films running Lord knows how long. He has settled for 22 chapters of Genesis, compressed by Director John Huston into three hours of empty illustrations from Scripture...
Among the stars dimmed for the occasion are George C. Scott and Ava Gardner as Abraham and Sarah, the ancient barren pair who crawl abed hopefully cooing Songs of Solomon. Peter O'Toole, as three Angels of the Lord, smites Sodom in triplicate, terrorizing hordes of extras, who, as usual, do their best to make transcendental evil shine through gaudy sequins and gobs of purple eye shadow. Any characters who are at all respectable converse with a vengeful Deity mainly by lifting eyes skyward, and the pauses throb with crashing drums, heavenly choirs and bird song-everything, in fact...
...Crimson offense never got going, while the Lord Jeffs' Jaffer Kassam all set up a goal by his right wing in the second quarter and the clincher by his left wing in the third...
Amherst's three fullbacks are an experienced unit, and it was their interaction as much as their individual ability which stopped the Harvard forwards. In addition Amherst often dropped a halfback back to form an impregnable four-some between Harvard and the Lord Jeff goalie...