Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fall, by Albert Camus...
...Apple's East Asian distributor: "The executives in California have underestimated the enemy, and if they don't quickly do something about it, they're going to find cheap copies of the Apple being sold on every corner in the U.S." Apple's general counsel, Albert Eisenstat, toured East Asia two months ago to assess the problem. He concluded that the Asian challenge was not yet serious enough to warrant immediate legal action, but Apple is still considering that option. Says Eisenstat: "In the end, Apple's continuing new technology is going to make these...
...dormitory of Miss Hannigan's Dickensian orphanage, the eldest of six orphans jumps from bed to bed-and one galumphing foot lands splat! on the forehead of a younger girl. It's no wonder that when Annie (Aileen Quinn) gets the chance to live with Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), she promptly forgets her orphan camaraderie. But then the entire movie is a series of plot strands twisted, then discarded...
...role. Quinn can crinkle her eyes, read her lines, sell a song, tap her toes just like a real live girl; but because she is all calculating show biz and no childlike naiveté, she impresses as a red-headed homuncula. Her elders don't fare much better. Albert Finney, who manages a scowl that comes out a secret smile, has the right moves but not the forbidding magnetism of the world's richest capitalist. Ann Reinking, a terrifically sensuous dancer, has little opportunity to display her talents as Warbucks' secretary. Only Carol Burnett shines...
...problem in finding space for his colorful academic hoods and coming up with acceptance speeches. "It's difficult to tailor my remarks each time," says Father Hesburgh, "but I tell the students that they have to be competent and have compassion. Not everyone can be an Albert Schweitzer or a Mother Teresa, but everyone can do something." Like balancing a milk bottle on his head, at the very least...