Word: perched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when they tried to talk propaganda, American MPs moved them along. Overhead, flocks of doves, of which Koreans are particularly fond, darted about-but even they were involved in the nasty little frontier cold war. The Communists, before releasing them from the dovecot, had carefully trained the birds to perch only on their own green-painted roofs, not on the blue U.N. buildings...
...famous and successful author. To Charrier's amazement, Reyer and his stunning wife (Stephane Audran) make him feel so at home in their luxurious villa that he soon has a latch-key familiarity with the couple. This sudden rescue from loneliness should make Charrier happy; instead, watching Stephane perch adoringly on the arm of her husband's chair, Charrier decides that he must spoil things for them. Snooping on Stephane when she makes daytime trips to Munich, he discovers that she has a lover. Charrier takes photographs of them embracing on street corners, behind shop windows. He shows...
...original are worked in, along with a few members of the cast. Hollywood's Ann-Margret, a too authentic 21, is a mighty big girl to be playing a 16-year-old. But her frisky dancing and cheery chirpings do help to keep Birdie from falling off the perch...
...story home, built on a concrete slab, will have seven bedrooms, 5½ baths and will cost an estimated $70,000. There will be no swimming pool. Instead, the Kennedys have dug out an acre and a half for a man-made lake, and will stock it with bass, perch and bluegills...
...contested ballots are to be submitted to a panel of three district court judges; whatever the panel decides, the loser is almost certain to take the issue to the state Supreme Court. Until it reaches a decision, Elmer Andersen remains Governor-on about as precarious a political perch as ever existed anywhere...