Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trio of gangsters beat and rob them. The last victim is a hideously ugly, stooped Chinese mandarin, danced by Flindt himself. After a grotesquely forceful solo, he engages the streetwalker-provocatively danced by Vivi Gelker-in a scorching sensual pas de deux. The gangsters move in and repeatedly stab and then strangle him. But he refuses to die, and in desperation they hang him from a "column of lust." Still he lingers, and the streetwalker, strangely touched by the power of his passion, embraces him and, after one final moment of redemption, he expires...
Hassan also made a stab at establishing an effective Parliament elected by universal suffrage, but when its haggling members managed to pass only two minor bills in two years, the King gave up. He closed Parliament, cracked down on all political activity and reverted to the autocratic ways of his Alaouite ancestors, who swept out of the desert to establish their dynasty in the 17th century. He is now his own Prime Minister, army chief and Amir al Moumineen (Commander of the Faithful). He relies on his 27 Cabinet ministers primarily for background briefings and good fellowship, makes most government...
...decide within the next two weeks whether to grant Haravrd Upward Bound a compromise request. Administrators at the School of Education insist that the program will continue, with undiminished energy and enthusiasm, even if OEO rejects the proposal. But it will remain, for another year at least, merely a stab in the dark...
...this point, Uncle is just one more budget dreadful from the monster mill operated by Producer William Castle (Macabre, The Tingler). From here on, it turns into a wonderfully wacky game of you-stab-my-back-and-ril-stab-yours. Uncle strikes first. One dark night he hypnotizes the boy-Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest...
...their brief rest stops, members of the walk tried to persuade hecklers to change their viewpoint about war. In response, they were hostilely disputed and often taunted. Said one teenager from Dorchester, "It [the war in Vietnam] is just like when you have a fight with a gang. They stab you and you want to stay them back...