Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the aesthetically ridiculous, commercially brilliant brainstorm surfing blithely atop the Zeitgeist's seventh wave is a little number called Charlie's Angels, starring sexy Farrah Fawcett-Majors, sweet Jaclyn Smith and smart Kate Jackson. The series is about delicious ladies who get into scrapes that threaten life and virtue in the course of working as operatives for a private detective with such a passion for anonymity that he is never seen on camera. The show is not just a winner but a certifiable phenomenon. Seldom has a brand-new entry broken into Nielsen...
...riots in the guilt-ridden and fear-filled minds of many whites. Elitist and reactionary commentators began to claim that their fears were justified, that students specially admitted were demeaning the standards of entire schools. And everyone was frightened when real violence did, in some cases, break out, or threaten...
...true or untrue") that it may have invited the North Koreans to invade. Carter also flubbed by saying that a Soviet move into Yugoslavia involved "the internal affairs of another country." He had a point when he argued that such a move was highly unlikely and would not directly threaten U.S. security. But security is a flexible concept; he failed to note that an invasion of Yugoslavia would rock all of Europe and could have unforeseen global repercussions...
Candida is very fine early Shaw; its dialogue is eloquent without being talky, its characters are vivid and complex and its polemics never threaten to overpower the central psychological drama. The Loeb production--spotty as it is--still manages to retain much of the play's original dramatic force. But it succeeds partially only because, with Candida, it would be very hard to fail utterly...
...billions of pounds of paper threaten to crush an entire civilization! See actual money collapse, then rise from its ashes! See an entire nation tremble before the Gnomes of Zurich! See panic nearly break out! Yes, the British government was back again last week with still another episode of the Saga of the Plunging Pound, and for theatrics alone it was one of the best performances ever. At one point in the drama, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey headed for the Orient on other business, then changed his mind and rushed back from the airport to his desk. Prime...