Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard Kick. The cannon was effective, of course, showing the world that the U.S. will not accept humiliating provocations. But the U.S. success owed almost as much to luck as to skill in combat. If the Communist Cambodians had dug in and refused to release the Mayaguez crew, the military mission might well have aborted. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Joseph J. Kane, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger admitted: "The outcome was fortunate...
...success has spoiled Monty Python--this movie was made before it became the Rowan and Martin of the mid-seventies--but something's done it. Probably just a silly decision to concentrate on a single plot, making the whole hour and a half seem like one extended joke that very quickly loses its savor. Monty Python's best routines have often been its shortest, and the longer ones--like "The Piranha Brothers" and "Fairy Tale"--were very often the only losers on their records. And Now for Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying...
...great teaching museum, depends on Slive's ability to increase its endowment, something which will enable him to assemble teaching exhibits and display them. If the museum's new director has the same effect on potential donors as he has on the Fogg's staff be should be a success for as Rosenfield says, Slive the people in the museum...
...that the United States, always ready to swiftly commit troops around the world, did not have better diplomatic ties to Cambodia and that China was not openly willing to help with negotiations. The lives that were lost, however, make the Mayaguez incident not a success, but a failure in diplomatic relations and a failure on the part of both countries' leaders to consider the lives of their people...
...market meant its subjugation to the dictates of the state." In the West directors are permanently torn between giving way to their creative instincts and submitting to the demands of producers, and viewers, since in the last instance, the very existence of film depends on its box office success. The situation is different with a nationalized film industry as in Czechoslovakia, where the previewer (the censor) and the producer are the same person, i.e. the Party establishment. This also explains why directors in Czechoslovakia were almost forced to become involved in politics since their chances of making films depended...