Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which create a nice, ironic tension between the film's genteel manner and its really quite ferocious theme. It may be seen as a mature exercise in style by a young director, if for no other reason. In addition, it is the centerpiece, so far, of the revitalized Australian film industry and the first assured work by a director who could gain an international reputation. -Richard Schickel
Chaikovsky spotted the Crimson to a quick one-zip lead by destroying Australian freshman Scott Rowlands at number two singles, 6-4, 6-2, with "a lot of low, chiselly slices and some good backhand passing shots...
...Perth, however, what slithered up to England's future King was a nubile nymph, clearly carrying no concealed weapons, who hugged and kissed an unprotesting Charles. The Prince was also kissed by a young housewife and by an ecstatic elderly lady. Recalling similar smooching on Charles' previous Australian visits, the Melbourne Herald sought explanations from Body Language Expert Desmond (The Naked Ape) Morris, who blamed it on Charles' friendly grin. "If he scowled or showed alarm or just cultivated a blank expression, it wouldn't happen. Queen Victoria did this, and not many kissed...
DIED. Marjorie Lawrence, 71, Australian-born soprano who resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges...
...familiar as the monsoon cycle may be, the winds remain inscrutable-"a sea of question marks," says Australian Meteorologist Peter Webster. Predicting them is bafflingly difficult; they are a cauldron of complex, wildly fluctuating conditions. Says the U.S. National Science Foundation's Richard Greenfield: "They can vary fantastically over the space of a few miles, and even a one-or two-degree temperature shift sets vast amounts of airborne water dropping...