Word: umbrellaed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after 23 years, MGM has decided to rerelease the movie nation-wide--with plenty of hype, including umbrella-festooned theater lobbies--and give those people a chance to see the other 97 minutes. MGM would have done better to confine itself to three minutes of Gene Kelly in the puddles. Unveiled in all its technicolor gaudiness, Singin' in the Rain stands revealed as an overblown, badly acted, often tedious extravaganza that almost drowns Kelly's perfect little droplet...
...hundred and twenty million dollars is what Harvard, its umbrella organization, MASCO, and their affiliates plan to spend over the next four or five years for a package project of the power plant, a housing project, and the Affiliated Hospitals Center. The Harvard/MASCO plan will have an impact on the people in Boston that is almost unparalleled in urban development. It is one thing to replace a section of commercial downtown with similar commercial construction it is quite another to move $220 million worth of construction smack into the middle of an established neighborhood when most of that money will...
...Although banned by the regime of ailing Dictator Francisco Franco, 82, the Communists are conservatively estimated to have 12,000 members, and by their own count many more. Recently, they have enlisted a broad spectrum of individuals, including many professionals, in the junta democrática-an umbrella organization whose professed purpose is "to unite the opponents of the government and ultimately restore democracy" to Spain after Franco's death...
...Mood. Japan spends less than 1% of its G.N.P. on defense for its 261,400-man self-defense force, relying on the American nuclear umbrella and bases in the Pacific. "Security for Japan up to now has been like sunshine and water. When there is plenty, people take it for granted," said Michita Sakata, Director-General of the Japanese Defense Agency. "We want to enhance the credibility of our existing security arrangements, but Japan must be defended by the Japanese themselves...
...manufacture, possession and introduction of nuclear weapons into the Japanese islands. But if South Korea or Taiwan, feeling that its own security has been weakened by the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina, develops its own nuclear weapons, sentiment could rapidly change in Japan. Thus the U.S. nuclear umbrella over South Korea assumes new importance...