Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Burton were telling it in London last week, they dropped in one night recently at a little local circus near their Mexican vacation house in Puerto Vallarta. Suddenly one of the performers was saying things in Spanish and smiling at Elizabeth, so she stepped graciously into the ring, thinking she was going to be introduced. "The next thing I knew, he was throwing daggers at her," said Richard. "What we didn't know," said Elizabeth, "was that the knife thrower was saying: Is anyone brave enough to take a chance with my daggers?' Those knives really thumped...
...drills. A veteran of World War II service in the Japanese army, Nakauchi views business as combat: "We must inculcate in our managers a brute force for beating down all our rivals." But the round-faced, spectacled market magnate also has milder moods. While listening to the cash registers ring at a recent store opening, he forgot Mao long enough to echo unconsciously a far different cultural influence. "That," he said, "is the sweetest music this side of heaven...
...Secretary David Packard, the Pentagon's procurement administrator, into a hot rage. He was angered at Grumman for not putting up danger signals earlier, though Evans says that he "outlined" his cost problems to Navy officials as far back as September 1969. Behind closed doors in his E-ring Pentagon office, Packard repeatedly chewed out Navy brass for failing to give him early warnings of Grumman's troubles. Some of the officers present during these sessions later called Packard "unreasonable." One result of the mess is that Vice Admiral Thomas F. Connolly, the Navy's air-operations...
...would go beyond broadcasting to embrace Canadian newspapers, magazines and billboards. In addition, each cigarette package would have to carry the tar and nicotine level of its contents and the admonition, "Warning: Danger to health increases with amount smoked. Avoid inhaling." Every cigarette must have a ring printed around it near the middle to caution the smoker that if he puffs beyond that point, he will get increased concentrations of tar and nicotine...
From time to time, the camera breaks away from the center ring to inspect clowns in senescence, brittle little men who recall Falstaff's lament: "How ill white hairs become a fool." In the midst of unabashed gaiety, Fellini ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque...