Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Silent Majority. He may never gain it, since he has foes potentially stronger than ever in the young officers and the large Communist Party. The ubiquitous red-and-yellow hammer-and-sickle party posters in every Portuguese town indicate that the Communists are the best-organized and -financed party in the country. Minister Without Portfolio Alvaro Cunhal, 60, the Communist leader, has emerged as the government's best politician after Spinola. Counseling moderation and condemning the Maoist left and labor unrest, Cunhal says that his short-term aim is the nationalization of transportation, mines, steel and "other fundamental sectors...
...nearby Reading Hospital for some inoculations before his trip to Zaire this month to fight George Foreman. "I hate 'em; let's get 'em over with," protested Ali in mock terror as he awaited his bout with the needle. The challenger endured his prophylaxis against smallpox, yellow fever and polio, then grumbled, "My fights don't take this long...
...McCabe and Mrs. Miller or Thieves Like Us) have a look of surprise, of the familiar transposed in some evasive but still palpable way. Once again he enjoys the collaboration of his excellent art director, Leon Ericksen, who has constructed an entire casino, brightly seedy and lit like a yellow-fever ward, which Altman populates with 24-hour night people. Their faces are ridden with worry, briefly flush with success. Their babble, their half-heard hopes framed in gambler's jargon, are like the running response of some lost congregation. They are Altman's chorus...
...money to support their habits. Reports of death from drug overdoses have become staple items in newspapers. The city is even beginning to have New York-style gang wars between rival dope pushers. The Rosse Buurt was recently jolted by a daylight gun battle between members of the local Yellow Mafia and a Surinamese heroin dealer. No one was injured, but police found packets of heroin on each of the three gunmen they managed to catch...
Seen from their off-camera sides, however, Bruce's right and left look more like cutaway drawings of an old Messerschmitt 109. Each has a 25-ft. spine of tubular and spring steel, painted a decidedly unsharklike yellow, and 50 bright green, double-jointed ribs, housing some 500 ft. of plastic tubing, 25 remote-controlled valves and 20 electric and pneumatic hoses...