Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schachter) and Eleanor (Kristen Gasser)--a painting preserver undergoing a mid-life crisis and a part-time music teacher approaching menopause. James and Eleanor's children have all left home, creating a void in the couple's life. Bored, James allows the former lover of his dead friend Albert, a chic young woman named Kate (Nan Dunham), to seduce him into his first-ever extra-marital liaison...
...paid attention to him," Belmonte says. "In May, I was up in Prince Albert. We had a sincere interest in him. I called Bill [Harvard Coach Cleary] after I learned about him and said...
...life, he is a modest man, given to understatement and sly humor, deft in turning the spotlight on others. He fondly evokes such colleagues as Thomas ("Fats") Waller and Lester Young, and he has a nice eye for after-hours vignettes. With the artful help of Collaborator Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues), he turns his early memories into a historically valuable account of the itinerant, raffish life of the black musician in the '20s and '30s. The Jim Crow working conditions provoke little bitterness. All he wanted, says the Count, was "to play music and have a ball." Basie...
...Since the two countries have no extradition treaty, the move was seen in Haiti as a face-saving gesture by a regime increasingly regarded as too sympathetic to Duvalier cronies. There was widespread outrage when it was disclosed that the council had given safe passage to Brazil to Colonel Albert Pierre, head of Baby Doc's feared political police and a man said to enjoy taking a personal role in torture. Days later, an angry mob at the Port-au-Prince airport forcibly prevented retired Duvalier Secret Police Chief Luc Desyr from boarding a flight out of the country. Meanwhile...
...encourage showboating, as it has on occasion in the House, where the cameras often go on rolling at the end of each day's business so that members can deliver special one-minute speeches for home consumption. But the main effect of television in the House, says Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, a former Congressman, has been to make legislators more careful about their performances and floor speeches. The Senate, moreover, did not exactly throw itself open to video verite: the new rules preclude camera panning of the chamber to show empty seats or drowsing Senators...