Word: sword
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disillusionment following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence...
Kennedy does not have to probe very deeply to find in Daley the spirit of an Irish warrior chieftain. Gaelic legend has a mother feeding the weaning morsel to such an infant with the tip of his father's sword: no better means to teach the proper ways of life and death. To Daley, politics was unremitting combat. Once attained, power could not be shared because sharing would tempt others to become chieftains...
...fares by March 17. Nothing was ever said publicly about possible U.S. restrictions on flights by the state-owned British Airways, a far more important carrier than Caledonian, but the threat was certainly there. As one British embassy spokesman put it: "Carter hung a St. Patrick's Day sword of Damocles over our heads...
Richard Lester, who collaborated with Fraser on The Three Musketeers. The chore has fallen instead to Richard Fleischer, who possibly took on this benign project as penance for giving the world Mandingo. Fleischer has staged the film's many chase scenes and sword fights in his characteristically witless manner, but at least he keeps the narrative rolling noisily along. He also makes the most of his mishmash of a cast. Rex Harrison (as the Duke of Norfolk) and Oliver Reed (as Miles Hendon) are endearing good guys; George C. Scott's dry impersonation of a vagabond king...
...disappointing 7-4 season, the Harvard men's fencing team placed tenth in the 13-squad ECAC meet that ended in Princeton's Jadwin Gym Saturday. The University of Pennsylvania finished in first place, having demonstrated in record-breaking fashion that Penn is indeed mightiest with the sword...