Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen and Country" is a tale of the adventurous life a sailor encounters during the sack and pillage of enemy nations. Eventually the sailor tires of the women and treasures exotic lands can offer and reappraises his own self worth and allegiance to his country...
Peckinpah spends a lot of gleeful time showing Alfredo's head in a sack, being rudely bumped on the front seat of Bennie's car and swarming with dozens of interested flies. The movie has its fair share of action and a good deal of bloodletting, but gets ragged and desultory in the quieter portions...
...writer was Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. until Oct. 13,1973, when, in the "Saturday Night Massacre," he was fired by Richard Nixon for refusing to sack Special Prosecutor Archibald...
...Venetian culture was saturated with Byzantine prototypes. Venice, in fact, was the main valve through which Byzantine influence in art, architecture, literature and scholarship was pumped into Italy. By one of the treacherous ironies of politics, it was a Venetian doge who, in 1204, diverted the Fourth Crusade to sack Constantinople from end to end, destroying the Byzantine hegemony forever...
...galactic attraction of the previews was Yves St. Laurent, perennial sun-prince of haute couture. Midst gypsy violinists and the Second Empire decor of his new couture house, St. Laurent presented a collection that left little doubt 1974 could turn into the year of the dress. Unlike the sad "sack" of the '60s, St. Laurent's Naive Chemise features more elegant tailoring, arm-length sleeves with tightly buttoned cuffs, high necklines and low, mid-calf hems. "For me, the chemise is an expression of freedom," said Libertarian Yves. "I wanted to make the fabric float over and just...