Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corps Commander Cao flew off to 1st Division headquarters near Hue in an effort to woo rebellious officers back to Ky's side, but no sooner had he ended his speech and climbed aboard the U.S. helicopter that was to return him to Danang than a South Vietnamese lieutenant took a shot at the chopper. An American machine gunner cut him down with a single burst...
...interested in running syndicated columnists. But with each passing day of the three-week-old strike, the denials sounded thinner. The publishers knew all too well how quickly the public gets out of the habit of reading a newspaper that is not available, and how hard it is to woo them back. It was one thing for a lone and idealistic publisher, Jock Whitney, to keep the Trib going despite its losses. A corporation of which he owned only a third could not be expected to be so kindhearted...
Judex has too much low-key charm and seriousness to be wildly funny, but Director Franju seems content to woo a minority taste. He affectionately thumbs through an album of thrills remembered from boyhood, shrewdly heightening the original and sometimes shading in his own touches of nightmarish reality-most strikingly at an eerie masked ball where all the guests are feathered out as birds, again in a cell where a rotter confronts his festering conscience in a mirror that swivels to catch his every move. The spare, clever background music by Composer Maurice Jarre is a pleasurable bonus...
MORGAN! A misfit artist tries to woo back his divorced wife by behaving like King Kong in an offbeat comedy that might easily have run amuck except for polished clowning by David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, two of Britain's showiest young stars...
MORGAN! A misfit artist tries to woo back his divorced wife by behaving like King Kong in a hilarious, offbeat comedy that might easily run amuck except for polished clowning by David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, two of Britain's showiest young stars...