Word: ling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cameron Diaz signed on months ago, producers had a devil of a time finding a third angel. At various points in the protracted casting search, everyone from Posh Spice to Angelina Jolie was touted as the leading candidate. But last week LUCY LIU, who plays the less-than-saintly Ling on Ally McBeal, nabbed the role. The movie will diverge from the series by changing the characters' names and personalities, but should remain faithful in emphasizing wardrobe over plot...
...feel that many Chinese actors, like Bai Ling, are excellent professionals. Yet I feel that, so far, they are still playing subordinate roles in Hollywood. Do you agree...
With 28-year-old HSING-HSING suffering from a probably fatal kidney ailment and LING-LING dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year...
With 28-year-old Hsing-Hsing suffering from a probably fatal kidney ailment and Ling-Ling dead, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is in discussions with China about acquiring another pair of giant pandas. Both the San Diego Zoo, which has a pair of pandas on loan, and Zoo Atlanta, which has been promised a pair, have pledged the going giant-panda price tag: $1 million a year. But the National Zoo, where admission is free, doesn't have such deep pockets. Its fund-raisers have pledged $2.5 million over the next 10 years, plus help in conducting a panda...
...including Textron, Litton, Teledyne, Raytheon, Walter Kidde & Co. and US Industries. The movement would sputter to a halt in the '70s, its oxygen cut off by rising interest rates and a falling market. A surprisingly anticonglomerate Nixon Administration crimped the most aggressive expansions in the interest of protecting what Ling calls "the smokestack-industry crowd" of old-line executives. Ling was forced out of LTV in 1970 as part of an antitrust settlement. Bluhdorn died on a company jet in 1983. Geneen piloted ITT for nearly 20 years, acquiring more than 350 firms before retiring...