Word: casting
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...number of votes at stake is insignificant: a mere 10,000 to 15,000 Democrats are expected to turn out for town caucuses next Sunday. They will choose delegates to a state convention in May that will determine how to apportion the 22 votes that Maine will eventually cast (out of a total of 3,331) at the Democratic nominating convention in New York in August...
...early this week. By Saturday, the front runner among the eight candidates approved by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini seemed to be Finance Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr, who had been sacked as Foreign Minister last November for his reputed willingness to compromise over the hostages. An air of additional uncertainty was cast over the election by the questionable health of Khomeini, who was suddenly hospitalized for what was officially described as "a mild heart attack." Within 48 hours government bulletins said that the 79-year-old leader was recovering "normally" and that he had risen from his hospital bed to cast...
...Cast and crew fight for a play
Most of the reviews were respectful, but one-Walter Kerr's in the New York Times-was not. Since Kerr's is the most influential New York critic's voice, a closing notice was posted for the distraught cast, who thought they had a hit. But like Fred Astaire, who rallied everybody to save a show in the movie musical The Bandwagon (1953), Harris Yulin, who plays the villain, made an impassioned speech. "I think if we can stay around long enough," he said, "we can get some word of mouth going...
...Rubinstein's first volume, My Young Years, the settings are international, the incidents colorful and the supporting cast spectacular. He has a night on the town with the Prince of Wales, whose spindly piano he inadvertently demolishes with one mighty chord. An actress in Greenwich Village cajoles him into playing by standing on her head, "exposing her bare secrets"; she turns out to be Tallulah Bankhead. In an audience with Mussolini, he feeds il Duce a line for a speech. He sits for Picasso, who sees him 24 different ways. Round the world he goes, bumping over the Alps...