Word: actor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English Springer Spaniel named O'Toole after the actor, Peter. These spaniels are much like that actor--somewhat aloof, completely charming and totally unpredictable...
...turn as Dr. Chausable; he employs an entirely different British accent to capture perfectly the character's well-meaning but provincial sobriety as well as his underlying lecherousness. And as society matron Aunt Augusta, Emma Laskin drawls each word with a terrifically contemptuous sneer; she may be the only actor on stage who can not only read a Wilde epigram but can squeeze a laugh out of it as well...
...smart, thoughtful, articulate politician. Even so, during his speech entitled, "The End of Idealism," I couldn't get the picture out of my head of Jimmy Stewart as the Mr. Smith who went to Washington. The particular comparison with Stewart I would make was more like the famed actor's stump speech after the sequel, Mr. Smith Goes to the White House, which didn't do well at the box office. (As it turns out, unfortunately for this prissy good-government scenario, Babbit is now a Capitol Hill lobbyist for a group of healthy savings and loans institutions...
JUST A COUPLE OF WORDS IN HONOR OF MR. DE MOLIERE. First produced 16 years ago by Anatoli Efros, this program based on Mikhail Bulgakov's works fell into disfavor because Culture Ministry bureaucrats disapproved of director Efros' and leading actor Yuri Lyubimov's liberal views...
...meanwhile taken to nominating famous candidates whose high profiles guaranteed them overseer seats. With Transportation Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, former Democratic Party Chair Paul G. Kirk '60 and actor John Lithgow '67 on this year's official slate, HRAAA needed somebody like Tutu--a Nobel Peace Prize winner--just to stay alive...