Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ULYSSES. Director Joseph Strick has fashioned if not the best, certainly not the worst possible film version of James Joyce's novel, helped by a fine cast of actors (particularly Milo O'Shea as Bloom) who ring as true as Irish shillings...
...academic and intellectual communi ty." Building to a sonorous peroration, he cried: "Let us save our national honor-stop the bombing. Let us save American lives and Vietnamese lives-stop the bombing. Let us take a single instantaneous step to the peace table-stop the bombing. Let our voices ring out across the land to say the American people are not vainglorious conquerors -stop the bombing." Through it all ran the theme that America, "which initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world," is now "an arch counter-revolutionary nation...
...does not much like. It was probably not entirely accidental that he forgot to bring his discus with him to the meet; his wife discovered it lying on the floor of the family car and rushed it out to the field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever hurled it before and barely 2 in. short of the world record held by Czechoslovakia's Ludvik Danek...
Woodrow Wilson's words to Congress, as quietly dramatic and eloquent as the man who spoke them, still ring with sharp urgency, still speak directly to the national conscience. But in a capital preoccupied with another war, there was no official observance last week to mark the day, 50 years ago, on which the United States entered World...
...also gets some gross guffaws with Joyce's dirty jokes, among them Molly's assertion that oral sex practices can cause a woman to grow a mustache. As for the people who read the roles, most of them are recruited from the Abbey Theater, and they ring true as Irish shillings-particularly Actor O'Shea, whose Bloom is an ironic portrait of a man who doesn't quite know his place but continually gets...