Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...egotism ("The Day I Became a Genius"). The humorous musings of an amateur athlete ("Boxing and Me-the Boxer"). The details on an experimental camera that can shoot film in any light range ("Camera! Action!-What, No Lights?"). And sprinkled throughout are some mild little jokes that carry no sting...
...becoming increasingly obvious that this much-vaunted edifice, the pride of the Johnson Administration, though designed to abate the sting of the inequities of opportunity inherent in our system, is not achieving the promised result. Where are the American resources and determination that could fulfill this country's promise? They are concentrated in a small country in Southeast Asia, where the Johnson Administration thinks it can impose a political house of cards upon a proud people...
...help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants and a chauffeur-driven limousine, and likes to screen her old movies for guests in the Mao villa. But there she was on stage, drawing noisy applause as she inveighed against such capitalist poisons as "rock...
Yellow Men. Much of their comedy is sharply contemporary, and carries a sting. A reference to "the 13 Frenchmen who actually fought in the last war" is followed by a summation of Lyndon Johnson in his Viet Nam visit: "Shortly after he arrived, he left." An African head of state is asked by an English interviewer about his country's firm resistance to Red Chinese infiltration. "If God had meant there to be yellow men," the chief explains, "he would have made them like you and me." Hendra and Ullett, both 25, arrived at their joint lunacy three years...
...Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time out for blather...