Word: watch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until Sadat's flat veto on further talks, Vance had hoped to meet with Dayan and his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, at the U.S. watch station in the Sinai and had even hoped that the Defense Ministers of both sides would attend. Sadat had insisted all along that there must be "new elements" from Israel before Egypt would participate in more talks. Washington expected that Dayan's hint at Leeds that Israel would be amenable to discussing "territorial compromise" in the West Bank would be sufficient. Instead, Sadat denounced the concept as fraudulent and negative. The Egyptian...
...plane's performance and present the crew with up-to-the-minisecond accounts of engine efficiency, fuel consumption, progress of flight and miles to destination. Flight crew members will become monitors of the automated systems, and the new instrument panels are designed to help them keep constant watch on performance. They no longer will have to rely on a clutter of spinning indicators or round dials. Information will be displayed, simply and concisely, on digital readouts, vertical scales and bright, television-style screens. A much improved radar will display the weather ahead in living color (red for thunderstorms, yellow...
Both Davis and Minnelli are personality pushers who market their mannerisms like commodities. If you think they are repeating themselves, they are. When was the last time they were caught doing anything remotely fresh? Their fans wouldn't stand for it. They come not to watch a show or to see the gods and goddesses of the tabloids deign to immerse themselves in specific roles. Such play-goers attend the theater only to bathe in the effulgence of celebrityhood...
...Army Disciplinary Training Center in Pisa, charged with treason for making speeches over Rome radio in support of Mussolini's regime. For the first three weeks of his imprisonment, Pound, then 59, was kept in a small outdoor cage with a cement floor, free only to watch the Pisan clouds by day and "O moon my pin-up" at night. Improbably, some of his greatest poetry flowered there and in the tent where he languished during the next five months...
...film's plot has something to do with the efforts of a mean dean (John Vernon) to shut down the frat house, but it is really just an excuse for a series of bits that are far too hot for TV's Saturday Night Live. We watch the homoerotic rituals of a fraternity initiation and the orgiastic excesses of an all-night "toga" party. In one funny if discomforting scene, white students show up at a black nightspot and try, without notable success, to display some soul. Animal House ends with a where-are-they-now epilogue that...