Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terror." In 1953, Vida Hope, director of the London musical hit, The Boy Friend-a campy spoof of the 1920s-offered Julie the lead in the Broadway company. "My first thought," she remembers, "was 'Oh, good Christ, the idea of leaving my home and family'-I couldn't do it." But she tried the idea on "my Dad-my real Dad-the wisest and dearest man I knew." Said Dad: Take it. On the night of the New York opening, Julie turned 19-and the critics turned out the superlatives. She was a star...
...intimidated was she by the awful challenge of the trinity of Rex Harrison, Director Moss Hart and George Bernard Shaw. When she failed to get a fix on the mercurial part of the cockney flower girl, Director Hart put Julie through what he called 48 hours of "the Terror...
CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors...
While military pressure on the Viet Cong grows, so does the Communist campaign of terror against the Vietnamese people. The Viet Cong conscript by force, levy taxes on the populace and generally harass whichever villages they cannot control. They have killed no fewer than 15,000 local village chiefs since 1957, and regularly heave grenades into sidewalk cafes, detonate plastic bombs in hotels and use other tech niques that accounted for the loss of more than 2,000 lives last year. The terror is meant to slam home the message that nobody is safe anywhere, and that an enemy...
...Fighting Prince of Donenal. Red Hugh O'Donnell, prince of Donegal, was the great Irish hero of the 16th century. At 15, the wild child of the North was such a terror to the English that the viceroy shut him up in Dublin Castle for safekeeping. At 19, he escaped and launched a campaign of impetuous brilliance that drove the British out of Ulster and Connaught. In the next nine years, the O'Donnell and his tall gallo-glavses made Irish stew out of British armies sent against them. Then, while on a mission to the court...