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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptians' ingratitude, the Saudis have taken to quoting a saying from the Koran: "If you shall be thankful, I shall increase my bounty." Hinting that his country will not abandon the Egyptians entirely, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal likes to recall a time when Nasser savagely attacked King Faisal for months on end. Nasser suspended his attacks just long enough to ask Faisal to give him $10 million so that several thousand Egyptian pilgrims could go to Mecca. The King was annoyed at the shamelessness of the request, but in the end he agreed. After...
...from the same term-contract stable are to be seen in both movies, as are the same hopelessly unrealistic standing sets, only cursorily redecorated. In the first, a New York errand boy (Harry Hamlin), affronted by a contender, knocks him out with a single punch and is induced to abandon his quest for a night-school law degree in order to enter the square circle (about the only cliche not to be heard in the script), in order to earn money for an operation to save his sister's eyesight. "You'll be on the next train...
...minutes of the play are a mite slow, but from the time Cromus (Mathew Gatson) appears the pace picks up, the rude puns start flying and everyone starts to loosen up. Julie Martz and Amy Gould as Doto and Dynamane have some nice moments together as they steadily abandon their resolve to die for "Master" and start appreciating the reasons to live presented by the hunky soldier boy. Gatson plays the philosophical guard charmingly, acting like a guy on his first date who isn't sure when to shut up and just kiss the woman. His flowery lines are delivered...
Last year, Penders also declared that this would be the year the Lions would win the Ivy League title. He had Alton Byrd, Ricky Free and Juan Mitchell--a rich lode of talent he had tapped in his second year--all returning. Yet Penders decided to abandon this Xanadu on Broadway for the basketball wasteland of the nearby Bronx. He took the visionary gamble, betting he would be able to recreate the Shangri-La splendor that was Fordham basketball back in the days when Digger Phelps held sway...
...personal hygiene, lusts after his older sister and spends most of his time alone in his room. Without any redeeming charm, he is nonetheless capable of evoking sympathy. Jack never deludes himself about the mess he has become; watching his sisters mourn, he notes: "I wished I could abandon myself like them, but I felt watched. I wanted to go and look at myself in the mirror." Long solitary walks take him to the remains of prefabricated houses that had been knocked down for the forgotten highway. Standing in one, he sees his own emptiness echoed in the world...