Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia by getting tough with the Russians in Europe, issuing stiff warnings to Moscow against any more dangerous moves on the Continent. He further breaks with the President by declaring that the Great Society is a shambles and publishing his own detailed domestic program. The essential speech accompanying this scenario might go something like this: "This election is about the future. I ask the country to judge me on my personal record-on the fact that my ideas have always centered on goals attainable despite the obstacles of the moment. My yesterdays have been dedicated to today. Today, I still...
Revisionists and Zionists. In a development ominously similar to the scenario that preceded the invasion, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko hastily flew from Prague to Moscow, where the Soviet Central Committee was in emergency session. Next day, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov flew to Prague for talks with President Ludvik Svoboda, 72, whose sagacious firmness in the crisis has won him the affectionate nickname of "Iron Grandfather...
...sports car and plays with rifles, speedboats and other supertoys. All sorts of devices are used-pop-art intercuts with Lichtensteinish comic strips, chases through the Alps, love scenes that are neither erotic enough to titillate nor witty enough to be put-ons. "When a life is empty," the scenario sighs, "it is hard to fill it." It is even harder when a picture is empty...
...toward her. But despite Zita's undoubted appeal to dreamy young girls, an interesting young star and a grand old pro are not enough to support yet another tremulous version of the girl-in-a-woman's-body theme. Director Robert Enrico tries to lend his slender scenario some contemporary relevance by forcibly inserting a variety of fashionable camera techniques and casting a Negro Maoist. Though his color photography begins effectively-notably in Zita's terror-glazed recollections of the Spanish Civil War-it ends by stifling the film in a glut of self-consciousness. Annie...
...American magazine suggested, of course, that the U.S. was not unnecessarily beyond this sort of behavior, particularly if the country in question were as near to the U.S. as Czechoslovakia is to Russia. Still, the New Statesman came down hard on the Russians: "One has only to consider this scenario to see how in-defensible-in terms of any principles ever upheld by men of integrity, including that of 'national sovereignty' so exalted in Moscow-is the Soviet pressure...