Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though he was not credited with the "classical and popular" Khmer musical score. There was also a third Cambodian film shown at the festival, this one a documentary short called Royal Cortege, also by Sihanouk. If the Prince had so chosen, the festival could have been an all-Sihanouk spectacular. He has made eight full-length films, six of which have been released...
SURGERY'S most spectacular procedure, the transplant of a heart from one human being to another, marks its first anniversary this week. By the latest tally, 95 human hearts have been taken from newly dead donors and implanted in the chests of 93 patients (two of them got two apiece). Almost exactly half the recipients are still living, though some have received new hearts so recently that the likelihood of their survival cannot be judged, and another death is being reported almost daily. The world's record survivor has lived for just eleven months...
...former prowess; the other 40% is up to the player himself. Not everybody can or wants to play football on a knee that is inherently weaker and susceptible to further injury. Halfbacks Johnny Roland of the St. Louis Cardinals and Tucker Frederickson of the New York Giants were spectacular pro runners before they suffered knee injuries. Neither has yet recaptured his form...
...home fans climbed into their TV sets. And then-NBC abruptly cut away to Heidi, a two-hour dramatization of the children's classic. It was a clear case of unsportsmanlike conduct, especially since the Raiders, in those last few TV-less seconds, went on to score two spectacular back-to-back touchdowns...
Coogan's Bluff is what the trade used to call a B picture, but Siegel is not bothered by such distinctions. "I make Tom, Dick and Harry movies," he says. "I'm not interested in those 10,000 Tom, Dick and Harry spectaculars where everything seems to get lost in the shuffle." It is not very likely that Siegel will ever get a spectacular to direct, partly because his movies have seldom done very good business, partly because the studio executives do not care for his bellicose, independent ways. "The brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion...