Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Death is not, of course, a particularly original theme in this genre, but Orton doesn't strive for chills as Pinter did in Accident. Instead, he applies black humor within the blissfully sloppy and easy-going frame of character-types which are so familiar that they never really threaten to be ominous: The Sherlock Holmes sleuth who stalks, magnifying glass in hand, the unctuous undertaker who speaks of "floral tributes," the cool-as-ice nurse who hides a whopping sex drive. With characters such as these, each occupationally linked to death, but in funny, obsessive ways, Orton spins a yarn...
...ground troops in Laos, Cambodia or North Viet Nam. But, reaffirming a policy first spelled out last December, he said: "I am not going to place any limitation upon the use of airpower ... It will be directed against those military activities which I determine are directed against and thereby threaten our remaining forces in South Viet...
...idea that South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky has repeatedly mentioned. The President is aware that any full-fledged attack against North Viet Nam could draw China into the conflict, and he has taken extraordinary pains to reassure Peking that U.S. policy does not threaten its interests. But he also knows that three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars are massed just across the DMZ. To discourage Hanoi from sending them to attack the ARVN troops in Laos, Nixon deliberately left open the possibility of a South Vietnamese counterattack across...
...fully aware that a pop star can be destroyed by his fond public. Interviews seem to threaten him tremendously. "With all that feedback of ideas and memories and resonances from the past," he says, "an interview can be like an epileptic fit. People come at me as though they had a coloring book and ask me to fill in the colors." The false rumors that accrue to fame are exasperating. "One day," he told a reporter, "my brother Alex got ten calls consoling him about my suicide, my reinstitutionalization, and my split with Joni Mitchell." Chatter about Taylor's very...
...that we are living in another McCarthy era may be exaggeration. But once again, the government's political opponents are coming in for extraordinarily harsh treatment. Officials in the government are conjuring up plots which they say vitally threaten the national security. And, as in the McCarthy era, there are many willing to accept the argument that the government's "enemies" do not merit the civil liberties traditionally assured to American citizens...