Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...attacked her craft with monomaniacal zeal. "I have never seen any one involve herself so much," says Brooke. "She worked at it five days a week. Between classes she took modern-dancing lessons, psychoanalysis and massages." Her attack on her background was equally relentless. She became inseparable from Andreas Voutsinas, the actor Mel Brooks carefully chose to play the insinuating homosexual in his comedy The Producers...
...daughter will dominate the screen far more successfully than the father did in the '30s, '40s, '50s or '60s. Her bony body and lean, clean features can attack grin or grim pictures with equal ease. She has performed in period, contemporary and science fiction with total facility. Her speech still smacks of elocution lessons, but her throat thrums with conviction...
Died. Louise Bogan, 72, distinguished American lyric poet; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "I have no fancy ideas about poetry," Miss Bogan once remarked. "It is something you have to work hard at." And work she did, from 1931 to 1969 as writer and poetry critic for The New Yorker, and as the author of six volumes of verse. A consummate lyricist, she wrote with forceful emotion and maturity, as in "Juan's Song...
Died. Rosie Dolly, 77, one of Broadway's glamorous dancing Dolly Sisters who with her identical twin Jenny, was the toast of two continents in the Roaring Twenties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Beautiful and talented, the daughters of Hungarian immigrants (Roszika and Yancsi Deutch), they danced to packed houses on both sides of the Atlantic. Jenny, after several unhappy marriages, hanged herself in 1941. Rosie married Canadian Millionaire Mortimer Davis Jr., later shed him for wealthy Chicago Department Store Heir Irving Netcher...
...government-operated park, they spend the day shooting everything that moves-with cameras. On the way back, they stop to shop for souvenirs: Masai warriors' spears (forged in Birmingham, England) and "elephant hair" bracelets (actually made of plastic) that are supposed to guard the wearer against attack by a frenzied pachyderm. That is safari, 1970 style, the newest travel mania...