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...longer negotiate with most of the moderate leaders of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party. A few, in fact, are now regarded as cowards by the enraged Sikh community. She will have to await the emergence of a suitable Sikh leader, possibly retired Lieut. General Jagjit Singh Aurora, a hero of the 1971 Bangladesh war. In the past the Sikhs have sought the exclusive use of Chandigarh, the Le Corbusier-designed city that since the creation of the predominantly Hindu state of Haryana out of the heavily Sikh Punjab in 1966 has served as the capital of both states...
...conducted a candlelight march on Manila's city hall, waving placards that proclaimed, NINOY, YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN!, TALLY SHEET, NOT TALLY CHEAT! and ONE VOTE, ONE COUNT! In the capital's commercial center of Makati, a recount took away the victory of UNIDO Candidate Aurora ("Au-Au") Pijuan-Manotoc, 34, the former wife of Sportsman Tommy Manotoc, who is now married to the President's daughter Imee. Au-Au's outraged followers responded by storming the Makati city hall, flinging stones against the building and burning furniture in its courtyard...
...atmosphere on the set was uneasy. Director James Brooks, making his first film,, derailed MacLaine just before shooting started by informing her, after two years of having her develop the character as a Texan with a thick Southern accent, that Aurora was instead a native of Boston. Says MacLaine: "I went into mild hysteria. That one change meant she would have to have a different makeup, a different wardrobe. I asked questions about Aurora's history that were never answered." Adds MacLaine, with a hit of affection: "No one would call Jim soft." Brooks says, "Whenever you talk about...
MacLaine's style on-screen has always been bold, even overreaching. When she played a pathetic yet appealing doormat in Some Came Running, the role that first earned her an Oscar nomination, in 1958,* TIME called the performance "brilliant overacting." The same could be said of her Aurora, a woman whose funniest line-"Why should I be happy about being a grandmother?"-is screeched at the pitch and volume of a train whistle. Yet the performance is subtly detailed. In a romantic scene with Nicholson, for example, MacLaine softly taps her chest with her balled hand. The gesture signals...