Word: victor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be called the ambition unit--have bigger eyes. They figure that where they go, into melodrama or political sagas, the audience will follow. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (who made Beauty and the Beast) have splashed the broody emotions of Victor Hugo's epic novel with a bold, dazzling palette. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas) have written the largest, most imposing score yet for an animated film. The result is a grand cartoon cathedral, teeming with gargoyles and treachery, hopeless love and tortured lust...
...Victor Robert M. Hyman '98-'97 garnered only 1,190 first-place votes--less than 20 percent of the College population--to win re-election to the council presidency. Outgoing council secretary Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 did only slightly better, with 1,313 votes, to claim the vice presidency...
...what it says about his shortcomings as an actor. He couldn't see it or respond to it when he was standing six inches away from Boyd and the cameras were rolling. And now, 40 years later, he still can't see it when he watches the film. VICTOR D'ALTORIO Chicago
...reassure those who fear his unpredictability, Zhirinovsky has gone out of his way to show that he is "just another politician and not a crazy nut," says Mitrofanov. How exactly? "By asking for the petty favors all politicians want." In Zhirinovsky's case, this meant meeting with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin to request some specific goodies. According to Mitrofanov, Zhirinovsky asked for--and got--"a new car with a flashing blue light [to zip past Moscow's notorious traffic jams], a new dacha in the countryside, some special health cards for his family and one or two loans for some...
...recoil. "We have an agreement allowing us to run Zyuganov free of the old dogma, to give him room to maneuver," says Kuptsov. "But there are always tensions in so large a coalition." That is perhaps why Zyuganov so often looks uncomfortable at his own rallies. When backers like Victor Anpilov, a rabble-rouser, promise to fight "to the last ounce of blood" to restore the old order, you can almost see Zyuganov wince...