Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There is nothing comparable to it in diplomatic history," said Venezuelan Delegate Andrés Aguilar, who recalled that delegates originally expected it would be a labor of a few months. But the complexities, and the delegations, grew. By last week there was a cast of thousands: 460 registered delegates from 156 participating countries and 24 nongovernmental organizations-the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth, for example-and back-up staff of 2,000. The result, said Canada's J. Alan Beesley, chairman of the drafting committee, is "the most significant achievement in international relations since...
Producer David Merrick waited until the cast of 42nd Street had grinned, waved and danced through almost a dozen curtain calls on opening night at the Winter Garden Theater before coming onstage and making an announcement to them and to the audience: "This is tragic. Gower Champion died this afternoon...
...cast, who knew that their director was ailing and hospitalized, had little idea of the severity of his sickness. The news that Champion was dead poleaxed them. Wanda Richert wept in Merrick's arms, and, after a moment of stunned silence. Jerry Orbach called backstage to the house manager, "Bring it in, bring...
...moment was that terrible, that ghoulish and-it must be said-that calculated. Merrick's decision to reveal the director's death as a grotesque curtain speech resulted in the kind of attention and publicity that a more private notice-say, after the final curtain to cast, crew and friends, or at the scheduled opening-night party-would never have attracted...
...also be that the world has never really shaken its revolutionary cast of mind since that final decade of the 18th century, when the French Reign of Terror wed murder to freedom. All the revolutions since have sealed the knot, if only theoretically, and somewhere in the modern mind may lie the automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin...