Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more poets devise unusual formulas. Peter Joseph Daly Pearl River...
...songs of John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney. The songs (recorded by pop stars like Elton John and Tina Turner) are affecting in their own terms, but they cannot underscore a subject like war. Too often they are used in glib juxtapositions, as when Japanese planes take off for Pearl Harbor to the strains of Here Comes...
...divisive reality of the war in Viet Nam, seen live and in color every night on the evening news. Now, with the fall of Saigon a receding memory, war films are staging their own kind of blitzkrieg. Toral Tora! Tora!, the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora! for its own scenes of the momentous World War II carrier battle in the Pacific, was the sixth-largest grosser...
...Washington as a White House reporter and later as press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, Auntie Mameish Liz Carpenter is heading home to Austin, Texas, "to think more, to write more and to raise a little hell." At a farewell party at Ford's Theater, Old Friends Pearl Bailey and Carol Charming sang a duet, and Nancy Dickerson and Gloria Steinem helped narrate Carpenter's life story. But stealing the show, as usual, was Liz herself. "I stand here as the only Democrat leaving town," she told the 650 guests. Reminiscing a bit, Carpenter, 56, cracked...
...this in your pussy and see if you can produce a pearl...