Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very satisfying, but even better is the way Director Valerii has embellished a traditional western plain song with eccentric bursts of baroque invention. A disciple of Sergio Leone, inventor and master of the spaghetti western, Valerii has found a way to have fun with his form without indulging in parody or resorting to bloody excesses that have marred so many recent westerns. There is his handling of the Wild Bunch, which he converts into a men acing abstraction: a cloud of dust, a thunder of hoofs, an excess rendered so mysterious by distance that it is hard to know whether...
What is altogether too clear is that events will give the President and his advisers, old and new, no leisure in which to think out the details of economic strategy. Dismal crop forecasts last week made plain that food-price inflation is gathering speed again. A union plan to shut down the nation's coal mines this week underlined boiling labor unrest. The stock market, reflecting investor skepticism that anything much would change, plunged to new lows. The success or failure of Ford's presidency will be judged largely by whether in the months ahead he can produce...
Determined to get by force what it could not get at the Geneva negotiating table, Turkey last week again broke the unsteady Cyprus truce. With as much ease as a surgeon wielding a scalpel across the dusky Cypriot plain, Turkish forces supported by tanks, jets and ar tillery moved out of their previously held strongpoints around Kyrenia and Nicosia and within 40 hours crossed to the other side of the island at Famagusta, neatly taking control of the northeastern third of the island in what well may be a permanent division line between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
...plain-spoken former grease monkey and TWA flight engineer from Bridgeport, Conn., Schwimmer can barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's Connecticut Yankee has survived, however, and not just because Dayan has been replaced by Shimon Peres, a Schwimmer champion for years. Pressed by mounting criticism and Dayan's maneuvering, Schwimmer decided just before the October war to reveal I.A.I.'s balance sheet for the first time-and the figures...