Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Nevertheless, director Josh Milton--blessed with a talented, hyperkinetic cast--manages an enjoyable rendition of Greasepaint. He proves that with enough brass, good cheer, white teeth, and confetti, even the most banal of musical comedies can become pleasing...
...polarization of the Arab world has cast a pall over a planned 20th anniversary celebration for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Originally scheduled to be held in Baghdad this month, the event was canceled two weeks ago because of the hostilities. The war also dimmed prospects for an Arab League summit meeting, planned for Nov. 25 in Amman. Seven Arab foreign ministers gathered in the Jordanian capital last week to draw up an agenda, but produced little more than vague declarations on the need for "pan-Arab good will...
...David Gershuni's everyday kind of patient. But the orthopedic surgeon, working early one morning in a large barn at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, was unfazed by his jumbo task: to place a cast around the fractured leg of a twelve-year-old African elephant named Mandavu...
...skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12-in.-long steel pin; this served as an anchor for the heavy hoof-to-knee cast. Three and a half hours later Mandavu was brought back to consciousness. Within GARRISON minutes she lumbered to her feet, apparently no worse for the experience...
...will be months before the zookeepers can tell if the fracture has healed, but Mandavu seems to have accepted the massive cast, and her pregnancy remains normal...