Word: shield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than shield their power packs to ensure survival on impact, the Russians gamble that their radioactive materials will disintegrate on any accidental reentry and disperse in high-altitude winds...
...precise. Spacek, playing a spiritual sister of the lost souls she acted in Badlands and 3 Women, is diaphanously vulnerable, but also makes a fine clown in her off-pitch songs. William Hurt, her awkward military suitor, is sensitive and attractive in the scenes where he tries to shield Verna from the horrors of battle. The other members of the U.S.O. show, a fraying torch singer and a has-been Catskills comic, are performed with oldtime show biz relish by Sally Kellerman and Howard da Silva. Verna's troupe is the kind of company that gives the small screen...
...Shield's place in the nets has gone to freshman Ken Moore from Acton, Ma. Moore currently sports a 4.2 goals-against average and will be the fourth first-year goaltender to play at Watson Rink this year...
...bullet words. The queasy feeling of watching a friend's once happy marriage bleed to death in a well-manicured living room. The truly autobiographical Neil Simon cannot face that. In all of his plays, Simon has never looked at pain for more than a moment without the shield of a Hathaway eye patch. He uses the wisecrack as a poultice to ease the sight of life's open wounds...
...court of Henry IV, politics and personality meet with the clash of sword on shield. The cry of the battlefield resounds in the hall as the player with the power of position behind him emerges as victor. All the justness of the rebel family Percy's cause fails to overcome the king's opposing will; all the willfullness of the prodigal prince falls before the demands of his role as future king. At its most immediate level, the theme of the play Henry IV (part 1) is purely political: its art is a lesson in the practice of politics...