Word: griffiths
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...Winklevoss Twins should be played by real-life dopplegangers Conner Griffith ’11 and Drew Alcorta ’11. They’re not related, but we saw Armand Hammer on Gossip Girl, and we think Conner and Drew could even play the Olsen twins better than Hammer could play anyone...
...Winklevoss Twins should be played by real-life dopplegangers Conner Griffith ’11 and Drew Alcorta ’11. They’re not related, but we saw Armand Hammer on Gossip Girl, and we think Conner and Drew could even play the Olsen twins better than Hammer could play anyone...
...Britain in 1948. The Burmese military's historical role is to safeguard the country from all foes, foreign and domestic. The generals regard a threat to their regime as a threat to the nation. This might seem "misguided, even deluded," observes Andrew Selth, a Burma analyst with Australia's Griffith University, but the generals' fear of invasion is real and has been constantly stoked by Western actions and rhetoric. During pro-democracy protests in 1988, the U.S. deployed a naval taskforce off Burma's coast and later lumped the country with Iran and North Korea as an "outpost of tyranny...
...proves again how little they care about world opinion. But don't be fooled by common depictions of them as blinkered, paranoid and xenophobic. "These caricatures ignore the fact that the regime contains intelligent officers who are close observers of the international scene," observes Andrew Selth of Australia's Griffith University. There is evidence that Burma's rulers are concerned about retribution. Just look at the military-drafted constitution. "Approved" by a sham referendum in the wake of last year's Cyclone Nargis, it reserves for the military a quarter of seats in the new parliament after elections scheduled...
...Oscar platform Schulberg had mounted for Waterfront proved a soapbox in A Face in the Crowd (1957), another Kazan film with Andy Griffith as Lonesome Rhodes, a singing hobo who becomes a multimedia demagogue. (The character was said to be fashioned on folksy radio and TV host Arthur Godfrey.) Lonesome's derisive description of his audience is pure Schulberg: "Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. ... They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than...