Word: victor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Wallace Professor of Applied Physics R. Victor Jones introduced his teaching fellow (TF) during this semester's first lecture of Engineering Sciences 151: ` "Electromagnetic Communication," the class responded with a standing ovation...
...Dolly and Victor are musicals; Moon is a farce. For those seeking weightier drama, we have a pair of more recent arrivals: Zoe Caldwell, 62, in Terrence McNally's Master Class and Uta Hagen, 76, in Nicholas Wright's Mrs. Klein. These two actresses have given their professional lives to the theater--which has in turn gratefully given them a total of five Tony Awards and the evident right to have the phrase "the legendary" prefixed to their names...
...described as "an insufficiency of oxygenated blood to the heart," showed up on the evening news in a 40-sec. video clip produced by the Kremlin. Dressed in a blue, green and white track suit, the pale, puffy-faced President sat slumped in a chair next to Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. In a slurred speech, Yeltsin explained that he "wasn't feeling too bad" and considered himself "out of danger." But the public-relations ploy did little to allay suspicions about the true state of the President's health. For many Russians, it recalled the early 1980s, when the successive...
...both Victor (the man-impersonating-a-woman whose racy nightclub act has made him/her the toast of '30s Paris) and Victoria (the down-on-her-luck English opera singer who, desperate for work, agrees to become a woman-impersonating-a-man-impersonating-a-woman whose racy nightclub act, etc.). The show's writer and director is her husband Blake Edwards, who after a long career in films (the Pink Panther series, as well as Victor/Victoria) has chosen to embark on musical theater...
SPECTACULAR SWEEP, ROMANTIC grandeur, narrative richness, an improbably happy, morally instructive ending--Les Miserables, which is less an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel than a melodramatic meditation on its themes, has all the old-fashioned, totally unfashionable virtues...