Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVE TO APPROACH a book on leadership by Richard Nixon with a healthy does of cynicism. It is absurd, if not pathetic that probably the most mortally decrepit U.S. President ever has judged himself fit to assess such 20th century leaders Churchill De Gaulle MacArthur or Chou...
...least of all the 8,000 troops who sailed to the sound of brass bands and cheering, anticipated the bloody battles that lay ahead. But all attempts at a diplomatic settlement failed, and war it was. It was an impressive late 20th century display of fighting for a principle?that a nation must defend its sovereign territory...
...three years as the first female president of a major U.S. film studio, 20th Century-Fox Productions Chief Sherry Lansing, 38, has overseen exactly one big box-office hit: Porky's, a pickup from an independent film maker. But that commercial success was far outnumbered by such turkeys as Monsignor, Making Love, Six Pack and Author! Author! In The Verdict, starring Paul Newman, Fox finally has a critically acclaimed smasheroo, but Lansing will not be around to reap the rewards. Last week she resigned her post, which paid $300,000 a year, plus bonuses...
...funny, the program was that rare TV treat, a situation comedy with situations and comedy. At a M*A*S*H bash to say goodbye, the show's creators and stars were feted with a black-tie dinner in West Hollywood by CBS and the series' producer, 20th Century-Fox. Among M*A*S*H alumni, only Wayne Rogers, 49 (a.k.a. Trapper John McIntyre), turned up to share a homecoming hug with Alan Alda, 46, characteristically unshaven, but sporting a tux. Demobbing Day on the air for the current M*A*S*H regulars is Feb. 28, when...
...late John Berryman looks back at the years she spent among a brilliant and damaged generation of poets. The Last Kings of Thule by Jean Malaurie. An Arctic adventurer in the tradition of Peary, Cook and Rasmussen poignantly describes the lives of Greenland's Eskimo nomads as the 20th century encroaches on their Sahara of ice and snow...