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...crown. And the Irish have been fighting since. They've had their victories, of course. The biggest came in 1920 when they won the 26 counties of the south of Ireland. But the loyalist Protestant-dominated North (they still call themselves "Orangemen" in tribute to William of Orange, victor at the Battle of the Boyne) voted to ally with the U.K. It should be remembered that the white majority in the American South voted to have nothing to do with the rest of the country, in order that they might be allowed to continue with their various oppressions. The Irish...
...sight of Carole Landis and Victor Mature grunting lustfully through One Million B.C. was enough to satisfy 1940 preteens; the vision of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. engorged many a Saturday-matinee libido 26 years later...
...magisterial theater, and a forceful part of Giscard's campaign for a second seven-year term when presidential elections are held in two rounds of voting, on April 26 and May 10. But the aura of confidence is deceptive. Giscard is no longer the certain victor he once appeared to be; with only days to go before the first round, he is on the defensive...
...after voters delivered a resounding non in a referendum on the issue of Quebec separatism, the election amounted to political rebirth for Lévesque. It seemed to establish his party's vision of an independent Quebec as a driving force in national as well as provincial politics. Said the victor: "We are no longer an accident of history...
...often lead to mysterious deaths in Spark's worlds. She does not, however, create repetitively leaden conflicts between the bold and the puny. Power is ephemeral--it is never the sole right of an individual. "It is all demonology and to do with creatures of air." Ronald, sometime occult victor and sometimes victim in The Bachelors, observes, as the wheels of power spin dizzily about his head, whirring and clicking, bobbing back and forth with no point but endless effect...