Word: specter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incorporate the cigarette as a prop, he might have learned to inhale the harsh Bulgarian blend. The director fails in this production to show that the decisions Bluntschli makes are sincere responses to real crises--the love affair here has been reduced to a flirtation and the specter of war that is supposed to haunt the play has been revamped as a slap-stick--yet Clark struggles to portray a modern Shavian hero...
...fears were rekindled. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller on board his jet raised the specter of a "bloodbath" of a million people if South Viet Nam fell. Apparently that stems from the claim by Richard Nixon five years earlier that 1½ million Catholics who fled to the South would be killed if South Viet Nam fell. Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford did some research at the time and found a little more than half that many Catholics had fled South and about the same number stayed in North Viet Nam and were not touched by the Communists. Further...
What he finds is that the sins of the fathers are indeed visited upon their sons. His relationship with Keiko is doomed by the specter of his father's affair with Otoko. In a sense, he must repay Otoko, through Keiko, for his very existence--a life that was purchased at her expense...
...response to the specter of hunger in many parts of the globe, the Democratic Congress last summer authorized the Republican Administration to make 4.5 million metric tons of U.S. food available to the world's undernourished millions. Yet despite the clear urgency of the need, so far only about one-third of the food has been shipped in the $1.5 billion program, which ends on July 1. It seems a case of Samaritanism at an all too deliberate speed...
...their joint career started around the time of their marriage in 1964. Working for famed Record Producer Phil Specter, Sonny found odd gigs for Cher singing background at recording sessions, and they got a job together at a spot on the Strip called The Purple Onion. After work, she would often ask Sonny to drive her up to Tony Curtis' 31-room Tudor-style mansion in the Holmby Hills and park outside its great cast-iron gates. Says Sonny: "Cher would pine for that house. She'd say, 'God, Son, I want to live there...