Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimate prop, however, is Linus's blanket. Under Doug Eichman's affectionate fondling, the woolly soul-mate changes from a cavalier's cape, to a savage's spear, to a dance partner for the number "My Blanket and Me". Despite whatever Lucy might say, he's no "baby brother with a baby blanket," and preposterously picks apart his own psyche and that of others in Papa Bettelheim's best manner...
...painter named Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio who, in the course of a short, fiery and often pitiable career, changed the face of 17th-century European art. That achievement is the subject of a loan show at the Cleveland Museum, "Caravaggio and his Followers," organized by Art Historian Richard E. Spear...
...Nixon-Sato agreement also commits Japan to partial defense responsibility for Asia, with U.S. nuclear power serving as "the spear" and Japanese manpower as "the shield," in the words of Self-Defense Agency Director Yasuhiro Nakasone. Though the Japanese constitution specifically prohibits the country from developing offensive capabilities, Japan has been steadily building up the top nonnuclear military force in Asia, under pressure from the U.S. By 1975, it is scheduled to have a 286,000-man army and an air force with 900 modern warplanes...
Helmsley, a tall, spare man of 62, is used to taking risks in real estate, and has done well enough at it to become owner of the firm (now called Helmsley Spear) that hired him in 1926 after he left high school. He is one of the nation's largest real estate operators. Helmsley either manages or has an interest in properties worth $2.5 billion, including Manhattan's Empire State Building and Tudor City apartment complex, office buildings in Chicago and Detroit and apartment houses in Los Angeles, Houston and San Francisco...
...retain audience sympathy only when he strikes out against painfully over-drawn bogies of pure evil, such as the dissolute Lord Manchester (Robert Morley). Though Hughes takes pains to paint Cromwell as a sexually vigorous masculine dynamo (we even have one shot of him the bracing a long spear), there is more life and sexuality in the tender parting of Charles and his queen (Dorothy Tutin) than in either of the cardboard domestic scenes between Oliver and the vapid Mrs. Cromwell. I say either, as the camera only takes us into Cromwell's country estate once at the beginning...