Word: snipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late one hot summer night in a smoke-filled room. Two men sit around a table. They are bargaining and they've been going like this all summer long, but the trading deadline's tomorrow. Occasionally the haggling gets loud enough so that you can hear a snip of the conversation despite the secrecy that surrounds the whole affair...
...made Husbands Faces, and Shadows, concentrates not on the origins of her madness but on the character of it and how that resonates among the people around her--her husbands, everybody tells her different things that they don't mean and finally they send her away. The director's snip-of-the-ribbon style, where nothing ends, begins, or needs flourishing, gives a quiet sense of real life to things, works in a vacuum land with no echoes. So along with Peter Falk's husband you almost want to shut this woman away--stop this noise now--even though...
...lipstick, eye shadow and a bed sheet to make a Union Jack to identify them as neutrals. U.S. Businessman John Mazzarella of New York City was among a group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish snip ers outside. He told of the "Hollywood scene with planes flying in formation and paratroopers dropping all over Nic osia. Our waiters disappeared and came back wearing khaki uniforms. But at least we never had to pay our bills...
...dangles the village perilously close to Cambodian supply routes favored by the Viet Cong, and the blades of arriving American helicopters threaten to snip Buon Yun from its mooring. A detachment of twelve U.S. soldiers settles in to protect the village from...
...would consult with "technical experts" before deciding on a course of action. Sirica probably would first listen to them alone, since he could hardly invite anyone, even a secretary, to share his in camera inspection. Then he could request typed transcripts, perhaps prepared by White House staffers, and snip out the non-Watergate portions. That, however, would leave out the sound of the voices and the inflections that might also constitute valuable evidence that the jurors should hear. Thus experts suggested that the more likely course would be for the judge to re-record those portions which he determined...