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...scheduled appearance of Marcos and his wife Imelda, helicopters flew overhead trailing red-white-and-blue smoke. Top- ranking Philippine show-business figures worked the crowd into a pleasantly receptive mood. Red-uniformed marching bands began to blare as the faithful chanted the President's campaign slogan, "Marcos pa rin!" (Marcos still...
...Turkey Deluxe is one thing, life and limb another, so I politely explained that I had simply been on my way to see if anyone would hire a vacationing Social Studies concentrator, and I had thought it funny that an actor with fewer lines than Rin-Tin-Tin had won a dramatic award. As it released me, it winked, "Social Studies, huh? Well, have a nice day, comrade...
...average of nine violent acts an hour on real-life programming and 18 an hour on cartoons, nearly as high as on the three networks. Among the offenses: space battles in the Disney film The Black Hole, swordplay in an adaptation of Stevenson's Kidnapped, fistfights in Rin Tin Tin and the cartoon antics of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and the Three Little Pigs...
Hollywood is volatile, jealous and perhaps sinful. But it is intensely loyal to the little man whom it used to call Charlie before the wide world called him Charlot, Carlos, Cha-pu-rin and as many more variations as there are languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior...
...jets reportedly blew up a 500-yd. segment of the main road that connects Beirut with the south, effectively blocking the passage of Lebanese refugees seeking escape from the relentless bombings. Israeli gunships off the southern Lebanese coast joined the attack by shelling the village of Ras el Rin and the Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh, near the Israeli border. Just outside Damur, south of Beirut, more than 20 mutilated bodies lay strewn across the road. On the route to Sidon, a civilian bus was struck by a bomb that killed 20 passengers and wounded 35 others...