Word: scorpio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestible. It's not just that we cry at the ends of movies, and wonder what Dirty Harry will do now that he'd tossed his badge after Scorpio face down outside a potash mine. We'll believe circles that don't meet end to end. In the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT they can't figure out why we recognize a letter in almost anyone's handwriting, or why we abstract a smile-face as a face at all. Nobody knows why we believe animation.Kathy Rose [left] addresses one of her rebellious characters in 'Pencil Bookings...
...star prisoner-and the object of an intensive man hunt code-named Operation Scorpio-was the most recently captured: Bernabe Buscayno, 32, alias Commander Dante, a veteran guerrilla who rose from a peasant background to become commander in chief of the N.P.A. He had been arrested only the week before-with humiliating ease -while asleep at his family's rural home. Buscayno was visiting his two-week-old daughter (named Malaya, "free") and his wife Mila, who had been released from detention in June and apparently served as an unwitting lure. Army soldiers closed...
...case, Operation Scorpio, plus the earlier arrests, was a triumph for Marcos as well as the greatest setback for the Communists since the breakdown of the old Huk guerrilla movement in the mid-1950s. The military announced that the big roundup would continue, its chief target now being the Communist Party's chairman and shrewd ideologue, José Maria Sison...
Unable to penetrate her mystery, (So easy to look at/So hard to define) he can only, in true poet's fashion, give her names--"sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life...scorpio sphinx in a calico dress...glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow"--and finally, simply, ask of her, "Don't ever leave me/Don't ever...
...STONE KILLER stars Charles Bronson, who will not go away. It was directed by the equally persistent Michael Winner, who spins out at least a couple of features a year, most recently a vehicle for Burt Lancaster (Scorpio) as well as another one for Bronson (The Mechanic). Here Winner attempts to counterbalance Branson's concrete immobility by immersing him in a plot full of flash and frenzy. It is a mostly futile effort. The script, about a rogue cop, is patterned closely enough on Dirty Harry to be called Grubby Lou. There is a series of slaughters, apparently having...