Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...peasant homes and flown to Fidel Castro's country for ideological indoctrination. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the anti-Marxist, rebel UNITA movement in Angola, has even used the word slavery to describe what is taking place. The stories, which are given some credence by Western observers in Africa, cast a shadow over one of the Cuban President's proudest achievements: the creation of 15 revolutionary schools on the Isle of Youth...
...death-wish of American progressives cannot be underestimated; liberals love an honest loser. And by the same token, liberals all too often see reformers where none exist--witness Jimmy Carter, who teased with promises of reform, only to cast them off somewhere along his celebrated Inauguration Day walk to the White House. Anderson lacks the cynicism to distort his record; the press has done it for him. If the triumphant political product of 1980 turns out to be John Anderson, the package should be clearly marked...
Nearly 1000 people turned out earlier on Mass Ave to cheer for Streep during a parade held in her honor. A dozen Pudding cast members, costumed as women in outlandish dresses, garish wigs and layers of heavy make-up, escorted Streep to a waiting convertible when she first arrived at Quincy Square...
...have insisted that I be fully informed about any question of ethics that comes up." On one occasion Miller promised to look into some "strange" transactions in Ghana, then returned to assure the Senators that afer checking with subordinates, he had bund nothing improper. He convinced the Senators; Proxmire cast the only vote against his confirmation...
Holy Moses, what an all-star cast that is in the upcoming Wholly Moses, a desanctified recast of the biblical story. The premise of the movie is that a second baby, Herschel, was set adrift on the Nile at the same time as Moses. Never mind the hieroglyphic plot; just consider a cast that includes John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, John Ritter, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise and Jack Albertson, along with Richard Pryor in a robes-and-rigamarole cameo as the pharaoh who puts Herschel down. Pryor became ill on the set, and no wonder. Maybe even...