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Word: descendant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to fuse Fabian and the clown Feste into one character, and he still has not taught his players to accent the word exquisite on the first syllable. The cross-gartering of Malvolio's yellow stockings is still inadequate, although Freedman and his costumer Jeanne Button had only to descend into the downstairs lounge of this very theatre to see on the wall an illustration of how it should be executed...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A 20th-Century 'Julius Caesar'... ...an 18th-Century 'Twelfth Night' | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

P.C.I, deputy and longtime companion of legendary Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti; she thus became the first woman president of a parliamentary assembly in Italy's history. By giving up his lofty parliamentary post, Ingrao would be better able to descend into the arena of party politics and head an anti-Berlinguer faction. Considered one of the party's deepest thinkers, Ingrao is at the center of a "cerebral" faction that advocates a thorough overhaul of Communist strategy based on a careful re-examination of the party's strengths and objectives. Ingrao and his followers seek to reunify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: What Future? | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Mark Smith, the lights' number six man, prefers the scene from Lawrence of Arabia when the Arabs defy the voice of reason and descend upon the Turks with Lawrence screaming, "No prisoners" as the precedent for the boat's name. The message, according to Smith, is that, "rationality will not get in the way of winning crew races...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Rough but Ready, Lights Open Today | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

...everything goes wrong. He follows Mrs. Yeager to her gynecologist, only to learn that the doctor (Johnny Haymer) has already enjoyed TV stardom in a 60 Minutes expose of "baby slave auctions." Yeager himself proves to be the most colorless veterinarian ever recorded on film. Local eyewitness-news teams descend on the Yeagers, transforming a TV stunt into a media circus. Finally, an exasperated studio chief (played as a disembodied speaker-phone voice by real-life Studio Executive Jennings Lang) clamps down on the project. He sternly reminds Brooks that reality, like any other Hollywood commodity, needs packaging (that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Fakery | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...peculiar thing happened last Sunday afternoon. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, belatedly discovered that 2300 students were about to descend on Boston-Boston, for a dance sponsered by the Student Assembly...

Author: By Marc L. Baum, | Title: A Schizophrenic Assembly | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

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