Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bull ring...
...want to know the truth. Yet in a study of attitudes among the dying, Dr. Feifel found the patients eager to talk about the subject that was being so carefully avoided by physician, family and friends. Once the old liturgies asked God's protection from a sudden death; today it is expected that people hope to die suddenly. And they do. In automobiles and airplanes, through war or crime, death comes ever more abruptly, ever more violently. And after middle age, it comes suddenly through heart attack or stroke. There is hardly time to put one's life...
...Pierre as they break up, the director switches to a strikingly original technique. He places them on the top-floor terrace of an uncompleted apartment building, so that Nicole's profile is set against the slightly unfocused background of the Paris skyline. You receive both the sense of her sudden openness and his response of partial dizziness. When Pierre looks down from the edge of the terrace as Nicole drives away in a cab, the impact of their separation becomes terribly intense...
...sudden series of face-saving shifts, Smith rejected a Wilson proposal for a royal commission to draw up a new constitution for independence, countered smartly with a plan for a "joint" commission (three Rhodesians and two Britons) to decide only if the principles of the 1961 Constitution, with some adjustments, could be adapted to become the basis of Rhodesian independence. To Wilson, it was as unexpected as it was downright "ingenious." It meant that Wilson and Smith could continue talking without either side backing down on principle...
Harvesting Hostility. It is particularly ironic, say the authors, that Ruby's first lawyer, Tom Howard of Dallas, mapped the one strategy that District Attorney Henry M. Wade feared most: the plausible defense that Ruby shot Lee Oswald while "under the influence of a sudden passion arising from an adequate cause." Howard wanted the jury to view Ruby's crime as murder without malice, which in Texas carries a maximum sentence of five years...