Word: salvo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door model) and medium-sized Rebels ($2,420 for the four-door sedan). Tagging its new Javelin sporty car at $2,459, A.M.C. also boosted the luxury Ambassador line by some $120, to $2,671, including now-standard air conditioning. With that, the company loosed another breezy salvo in its new ad campaign: "Either we're charging too little or everyone else is charging too much...
...Away. To save the earth, they decided, it would be necessary to launch a salvo of hydrogen bombs into the asteroid's path. To loft the warheads, the U.S. could rush to completion five Saturn 5 Apollo rockets now under construction and build four more from scratch. A second Saturn launch pad now under construction at Cape Kennedy should be completed, and a third could be built. The Atomic Energy Commission would be requested to assemble six 100-megaton H-bomb warheads, the minimum size necessary to attack Icarus effectively...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...
...salty salvo in the war between the sexes, Shrew has already been through several screen treatments, including one with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., a long-running road-company revival with the Lunts, and a Broadway musical adaptation (Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate). Zeffirelli has refurbished the oft-told tale by styling it with the brio of the 16th century commedia dell'arte. Moreover, his casting seems to be a case of art's imitating life: Elizabeth Taylor as the sharp-tongued tigress, Kate, and Richard Burton as her hard-nosed trainer, Petruchio...