Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian-language sound track, charts the rise and fall of a great bullfighter in terms of bitter economic necessity. The hero is played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo, 26, known to aficionados as Miguelin, who gives the role a surly, feverish immediacy that sometimes lacks subtlety but never lacks sting. The quasi-fictional Miguelin has no dream of glory at the outset. A spunky, mop-topped Andalusian peasant, he flees the arduous life on his father's farm, drifts into that gypsy band of hot-eyed hopefuls who haunt every Spanish bull ring, courting fame with a scarlet muleta...
...Middle. Pacing back and forth behind his desk, occasionally stopping to stare through the tall windows at the White House lawn, Moyers composes his answers coolly, without hesitation. He never says, "I think," or "I believe." He knows. He took much of the sting out of a recent speech by Senator Robert Kennedy belaboring the Administration for not doing more to check the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Said Moyers when queried: "If you go back and look at the President's speech at Johns Hopkins, when he said we are not going to build the kind of world...
...wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town in a new 350-h.p. Corvette Sting Ray, a high-school graduation birthday present (she turns 18 July 2) from her parents. "How do you like your new car?" asked an imaginative newsman as she sat revving the engine. Cooed Luci: "How would you like...
Aimed with an angry art, Words can sting like anything. But silence breaks the heart...
...Reno Odlin, president of the American Bankers Association, pointed out that last year's failures involved only 0.06% of the nation's banks, said that "banking is probably one of the most racketeer-free industries in the country." All very true -but that did not take the sting out of the daily headlines about banking scandals, and it is unlikely to lessen the embarrassment of the banking community as the weeks of investigation wear...