Word: counting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same actors play both sets of roles. This connection leads to countless comic effects. In the splashiest, the perennially disappointed "other woman" (Randy Graff) of both plot lines switches characters, costumes and locales in mid-song, all without missing a beat of her ferociously funny lament, You Can Always Count...
David Mamet's principal occupation is writing bruising plays (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow) and film scripts (The Verdict, The Untouchables). Not surprisingly, the characters in these works are defined by what they do, not what they say. If their words count, it is because Mamet counts their words, using as few as possible to make his point and move his plot...
...always count on Ed to score points no matter what," Mee said. "He's a solid contributor...
...troika chaired by General Eduardo Abenina and filled out by Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, mastermind of the last two coup attempts, and General Jose Maria Zumel, a renegade officer loyal to the cause of Marcos. In a phone call, Abenina told TIME that the rebels could count on about 60% of the military for support. Soon, he said, they will begin a new phase of the rebellion, destroying property and, perhaps, waging a campaign of political assassinations...
...this University not to sell their stock in companies operating in South Africa....Since that time, little has happened at Harvard. But in South Africa, conditions have changed--from horrible to even worse....The original demands of the 1978 protesters are the demands that count. Boycotting the ACSR should be the only step in a return to the confrontational public protest of years past...In the embarrassing glare, this university and others might be forced to take the only step that means anything--total and immediate divestiture...