Word: nones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FUNNY GIRL is a loud, lumbering, almost anachronistic musical biography of Fanny Brice. Barbra Streisand's brassy talents are the none-too-firm foundation on which the film rests...
Despite the explosions and the flames in the night sky, Lebanon's armed forces were curiously slow to react. Lebanese air-force jets were based only 40 miles away, but none scrambled to challenge the Israeli choppers. Some Lebanese soldiers did advance toward the Israeli roadblock, but retreated when the commandos fired warning shots. A mobile Lebanese antiaircraft battery finally trundled up an hour after the attack began-and 15 minutes after the Israelis departed...
...decisions in the White House were made by lawyers, none of whom proved "especially familiar with the social-science theory on which the various positions were based...
...crack shot and avid hunter all his life, Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, 76, has obviously lost none of his skill, as evidenced by the bag of pheasants after a daylong shoot...
...Cowed by such a campaign, the FCC felt that all it could do was authorize a few experimental fee-vee operations. And none was on a large enough scale to test either the hopes or the fears of the contending interests. A pilot system was franchised in Denver but never got on the air. A Bartlesville, Okla., project lasted nine months. Other projects were quickly aborted in New York City and Chicago. Fee-vee's most promising and disheartening trial came in Los Angeles. Just as the operation seemed to be catching on, the broadcasters and film exhibitors forced...