Word: martially
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...martial epic Patton so stirs Richard Nixon that he has seen the film at least twice. But the star, George C. Scott, may not be entirely the President's favorite actor any more. Scott, who voted for Nixon in 1968, has defected. He has joined the Democratic Party's Committee on Congressional Leadership for the Future, promising the group's head, Sargent Shriver, that he will be available as a spsaker and fund raiser for Democratic candidates in this fall's congressional campaigns. The word of Scott's apostasy went around in Washington, and almost...
...Golden Horn bridge was closed and ferry service across the Bosporus, linking the European and Asian halves of the city, was stopped to contain the rampaging mobs. With four dead and 100 injured, the government of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel imposed a month-long period of martial law on Istanbul and the nearby industrial city of Izmit. Last week, the parliament extended martial law for another two months...
...court-martial scene is, in fact, by far the choicest in the play, and it affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...
...mainly the polychromatic rally, with its shimmering flow of blue, red, green and yellow hats amid thousands of American flags, was a festive affair, accenting the positive in a kind of workers' Woodstock. Banners proclaimed GOD BLESS AMERICA and the demonstrators chanted, "All the Way with the U.S.A.!" Martial music, including From the Halls of Montezuma and The Caissons Go Rolling Along, rekindled the World War II spirits of middle-aged workers. Flag-waving demonstrators clung precariously to the uncomfortable tops of moving concrete mixers...
...dusk to dawn without special permission. Civil servants come to work in khakis, including Deputy Premier Sirik Matak, and battalions of bureaucrats spend afternoons drilling in the city parks. As they roll through the streets in their commandeered trucks and buses, Cambodian soldiers wave to the cheering populace. The martial fever is such that the regime's inexperienced 35,000-man army has grown to a green giant of 100,000 volunteers...