Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CACTUS FLOWER. In a sex farce from France, a seasoned playboy dentist (Barry Nelson) loves nothing more than to cut the mustard. His plain nurse (Lauren Bacall) puts an end to all that with relish...
Another valid definition of a hero is "a person regarded as a model." In The Natural, Novelist Bernard Malamud has one character explain: "Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go. . . It's their function to be the best." But excellence is not enough to make a hero, nor is willingness to challenge the odds; those qualities may merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas...
...matter how Surveyor fares in the darkness, however, it has already accomplished enough to generate some inspired scientific prose. Rhapsodized NASA Associate Administrator Homer Newell: "Today Surveyor stands alone in the dark on the desolate plain of the Ocean of Storms, a solitary artifact of men who live on another body of the solar system, 240,000 miles away...
...soldiers for every Allied loss. In the new war that Giap confronts, it is his own men who are being gnawed, harassed, hounded and hunted by day and night. Such sanctuaries as Zone C and Zone D near Saigon, bases in the highlands, underground village bastions on the coastal plain-all are being hit for the first time in years, keeping Giap's men off-base, off-balance and increasingly cut off from their supplies...
...opinion as to Sheppard's guilt or innocence. Clark focused entirely on the "editorial artillery" that began accusing police and "hired lawyers" of covering up the doctor's alleged guilt immediately after the 1954 crime. The salvos came from all three Cleveland papers -the Press, the Plain Dealer and the News (since bought by the Press). One front-page editorial in the Press actually urged that Sheppard "instantly" receive "the same third degree to which any person under similar circumstances is subjected...