Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years of his career, he used to demonstrate his contempt for the medium by giving the smallest part of his talents. Now he has apparently decided to give too much, to parody himself. His work in Missouri Breaks is not so much a performance as it is a finger thrust joyously upward by an actor who has survived everything, including his own self-destructive impulses...
Fight Ahead. Each side has a bill before the Senate that suits its aims. One, sponsored by Hubert Humphrey and backed by the timber interests, has been reported out of the Senate Interior and Agriculture committees. Despite some safeguards, its main thrust is to direct the Forest Service to issue guidelines for timber management-thus giving it a free hand to do business as usual. The other bill, sponsored by West Virginia Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph, would set controls on timbering and specifically limit clear-cutting to 25-acre plots in national forests. A fight is expected on the Senate...
...Hanoi knew the South Vietnamese expected the first attack of the offensive to be either in Tay Ninh province, near the Cambodian border, or farther north in Pleiku. Hence the Communists' decision to launch the initial thrust against the Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuot. That came as a complete surprise to Saigon and led President Thieu to his hasty decision to withdraw his forces from the Central Highlands. Dung calls Thieu's decision a "grave strategic mistake." Thereafter, he says, Hanoi's main problem was moving fast enough to maintain the military initiative. For example...
There is a stage within a stage. On a thrust platform a troupe of black actors perform their nightly ritual "murder" of a white woman; a white audience (actually black actors wearing grotesque white masks that in no way disguise their color) comments obnoxiously from their box seats set above and behind the action...
...father was a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, an amateur painter who taught in a school for deaf-mutes in the Rhineland town of Brühl. Little Max briefly persuaded this eccentric sire that he was the child Jesus. Memories of this sort underlie Ernst's most notorious thrust of anticlerical wit, a spanking Madonna entitled The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses (1926). When his baby sister was born and his favorite bird, a pink cockatoo, died on the same day in 1906, a whole sequence of bird fantasies was set in train. Generally they...