Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Urged by Washington. Some high officials in the Nixon Administration also knew, and they feared that a collapse of F.I. du Pont might wreck other salvage operations then under way on Wall Street, notably the rescue of Goodbody & Co. by Merrill Lynch. These Administration officials urged Perot to step in. Perot at first agreed to put up $10 million; later he decided to acquire control. While not dwelling on the point, Perot feels that he acted in part from patriotism, as he is doing in his well-known campaign to free American war prisoners in Viet Nam. "It was something...
...Girl Friday, Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, Red River, Rio Bravo and half a dozen other examples of American film making at its best and most energetic. Hawks' 44th film, Rio Lobo, does not belong on that list. There are a few good scenes-an intricately executed train wreck, for example-but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful. It is mostly a replay of familiar fare: John Wayne flirts with the girls, keeps the hot-blooded younger fellers in their place, and finally goes up against the bad guys in the last reel...
...sense that it starts speaking to us where we are right now, in our present state of outmoded emotional and intellectual consciousness (and not in some futuristic state when we may actually be interested in Robbe-Grillet's descriptions of objects), in order to take us in, to wreck that corrupt humanist tranquillity in which we once thought we existed. If Duet for Cannibals were pushing a Marxist line, an ideological "content," by equally subversive means, we could call it insidious propaganda, pure Stalinist instrumentation of policy formulated in isolation from the masses. But it doesn't push any "meaning...
...last I saw of the wreck the calf had devoured most of the old lady's pickles and peppermints, and had begun on her bonnet; and the conductor, Bill, and the fireman were asking how it happened, and laying the blame on each other. I returned North by another route...
...Israel. With the Middle East cease-fire due to expire Feb. 5, Jarring hopes to make enough progress so that both sides will agree to continue the truce and keep on talking. The Arabs charged that by drawing Jarring to Jerusalem, the Israelis were stalling in order to wreck the negotiations...