Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciation of what Ben Jonson called the milk of Venus broadened a bit during her travels as a TIME correspondent: in London the cellar of Justerini & Brooks was downstairs from her office. While reporting for this week's cover story on American wines, Delaney became a connoisseur of magnum-size skills...
...scurried to the Port O' Call Marina for an unscheduled welcoming ceremony. After Colas docked, Newport Mayor Humphrey ("Harp") Donnelly III popped a bottle of New York champagne and proposed a toast. Colas politely drank the offering, then ducked into Pen Duick's cabin to produce a magnum of Taittinger. Obviously, nearly three weeks at sea had not affected the Frenchman's palate...
...DIRTY HARRY is the vilest of the bunch. Unlike the other two, it has no pretensions of art; it is a simply told story of the Nietszchean superman and his sado-masochistic pleasures. The hero is Clint Eastwood, a tough cop who carries a Magnum .44, "the most powerful handgun in the world," and brandishes it at a world which is so cowardly, stupid, and slow as to be beneath contempt. His quarry is a sniggering psychopath, a blank-faced embodiment of evil who personifies all that the American tough mentality despises: long-haired, pacifistic, whiny, effeminate. Harry tracks...
Philip Jones Griffiths is a young Welshman, a Magnum photographer-writer who worked in Viet Nam roughly for five years (1966-71). He hates the war, and his book, particularly the captions and brief texts that begin its various sections, will perhaps initially dismay even some readers who would like to run, not walk, to the nearest exit in Viet...
...running gun battle, two cops were wounded, one of them by a shotgun blast. A patrolman chased one robber to a nearby rooftop and shot him twice in the abdomen. Identified by fingerprints, police said, the wounded man was H. Rap Brown, and he was holding a .357 Magnum revolver when hit. At week's end, he lay in fair condition in a New York hospital...