Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curtain rises on a South Dakota whistle stop with an acting troupe doing a madcap facsimile of 1906 theater fare called The Mountie Gets His Man or Chang Lu, King of the White Slavers. With valiant agility and a good dagger-throwing arm, Mary saves her tiny "bay-bee" from a mountain waterfall, a grizzly bear, and the Oriental devil mentioned in the title. End of fun. Hubby (George Wallace) strands the company and deserts his wife and two kids. An English playwright of exquisite diction (Robin Bailey) begins wooing Mary, though his blood seems to be several degrees below...
...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...
...better to play, plays March. Wagner at least gives the customers something to snicker at. His sunny California accent sounds gloriously silly in foggy old Hamburg, and when he walks in to take over the family firm, he looks wildly out of place. It's as if Prince Valiant had come barging, bright-eyed and brainless, into the big board room at General Motors...
...abandoned the boxy look of the earlier Lark line. Even the Lark name is being downplayed in favor of model names such as Challenger, Cruiser and Daytona. But the Studebakers will face fierce competition from Ford's sharply redesigned Falcons and the Chevy II, Dodge Dart and Chrysler Valiant...
...silhouette. Chrysler stylists eliminated the huge and unsightly vertical parking lights of the 1963 Plymouth, and gave the car a new front bumper and a lower, wider look. The new Dodge has slablike front fenders a la the current Oldsmobile, along with new horizontally placed dual headlights. The compact Valiant has a more massive horizontal front grille and vertical rear lights...