Word: adel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountaintop palace, Moghabghab's car, just behind it, rounded the bend. Among the hundreds of Druses lining the road, shouting and cheering, someone recognized their old enemy. Within seconds, Moghabghab's car was surrounded. His driver leaped out, ran off to attract the attention of General Adel Chehab, commander in chief of the army, who was just a few yards ahead. As Moghabghab sat helpless in the car, four shots, muffled by the wild shrieks of the crowd, rang out. Moghabghab pitched over dead. His body was dragged from the car, battered with sticks and boulders...
...marines (and the later arriving Army paratroopers) seemed to have the military situation in hand, as much could not be said for the political front. In the delicately balanced half-Christian, half-Moslem Arab nation, the Moslems began to solidify their opposition to Maronite Christian President Chamoun. Adel Osseyran, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, protested to the U.N. against Chamoun's failure to consult Deputies before calling for U.S. help. One pro-Western Deputy said that 40 of the 66 members of parliament were opposed to the U.S. landing. Chamoun's opponents threatened to boycott the parliamentary election...
Although Genet reputedly wanted to add a cynical touch to an already morbid and sexually suggestive play by having the maids acted by two men, Wellesley refrains. Patricia Adel and Lucienne Schupf were given the roles, and they gnaw through them histrionically but frequently well. Their occasional over-acting is probably very much what Genet would have wanted; it helps exaggerate the nebulous line between reality and artificiality. Now and then, perhaps due to Nadine's Duwez's direction, sharp emotion and vigorous gestures and poses come too obviously from nowhere...
...Patricia Adel has a face that can freeze into a vividly discomforting mask; her movement is sometimes less successful, although properly awkward. Lucienne Schupf, extremely energetic, skillfully emphasizes the over-theatrical, nearly manic-depressive moods of her pitiful character. She throws sparks into an atmosphere that is designed to baffle and perhaps poison the audience. Katherine Kitch, as Madame, seemed nervous, and acted in a series of poses...
Drought Relief. In Adel, Iowa, when city officials ordered local tavern operators not to sell him beer, Ivan Gowin sued the city for $25,000 because he had been unable to relieve his "exhausted and dehydrated condition...