Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this town now, when one reaches a conclusion it is wise to retrace the ground and look for another meaning. The President's statement could be an alluringly deceptive decoy in a preliminary skirmish that may become a brutal battle for his survival. Richard Nixon has always been a gut fighter. His "secrecy" speech to the P.O.W.s last week was a familiar signal...
...pacing the laughter. It begins slowly, with a modest bit of domestic conflict in which Imogene Coca, looking, as ever, like your high-school dietician, must tell Caesar, her husband, that she has wrecked his beloved car. From there the film builds rapidly to an unlikely skirmish in a movie theater, a board meeting presided over by a chairman concerned only with his lunch, and a fond parody of a silent film called The Sewing Machine Girl. Finally there is a cli max of unsparing hilarity: a send-up of From Here to Eternity entitled From Here to Obscurity, starring...
...kisses signature at the end of a note that leads two Tennessee hill families into range warfare. The plot is infernally complex, while the idea- an allegory about aggression and the mad carnage it can cause- is simpleminded, like symbolizing the Viet Nam War (or any war) by a skirmish in a papaw patch. The feuding families are so grossly caricatured in the writing and direction that by comparison the Jukes and the Kalli-kaks seem like the Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan looking stunned, Steiger wallowing in mean ingless...
Well, all teams that were involved in that skirmish in January have traveled a "fur piece" (as the Down East saying goes) since then. And an examination of the record might suggest that Harvard has made the longest--and saddest--journey...
...there in Hanoi." In order to ensure that returnees do not get asked precisely that sort of question by the press, the military announced that the prisoners would not be available for interviews. Undaunted, close to 100 accredited newsmen turned up at the base, threatening still another Asian skirmish. Officials at Clark relented somewhat at the end of the week, hinting that a few token prisoners would be permitted to meet with the press...