Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis area is vast. It includes India, once again the world's most populous democracy, but a politically divided and troubled nation with a squabbling, ineffective government; impoverished Bangladesh; unstable Pakistan, where an inept military regime is currently considering the execution of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the autocratic but brilliant politician who rebuilt his country after its disastrous defeat by India in 1971. To the northeast is Afghanistan, where a pro-Soviet junta that seized power last year is trying to rule over one of the world's most ungovernable tribal societies. In the west...
...Belli, "the King of Torts," counselor to Errol Flynn, Martha Mitchell, and the Rolling Stones and as colorful as all of them, the Muhammed Ali of the bar--a superstar of the courtroom-as-theater, with credits that include Star Trek and Gimme Shelter...
...represented once Muhammed Ali...I met him over at a hotel in New York here, the Hilton. And he knocked on the door and said, "Quick, open up, close it." I opened the door, and just as I closed it, there were about five gals chasing him down the hallway, black and white, and he says "They'll tear me to pieces." He came in and we talked for about two hours. He's very intelligent, and not at all flamboyant...I had it worked out that they were going to dismiss [the draft evasion charges] if he would...
...neighboring Pakistan, another deposed leader was having what may be his last day in court. Pale, shaking and gaunt, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto emerged from 15 months in solitary confinement to appeal the death sentence handed down by a Pakistan court for plotting the murder of a political opponent...
...opened in August and died in the marketplace within two months. Audiences also wisely avoided Sylvester Stallone's F.I.S.T., a tedious fictionalization of the life of Jimmy Hoffa, and were almost as wary of Paradise Alley, Stallone's futile attempt to re-create sweaty 1940s realism. Convoy, Ali MacGraw's comeback vehicle, did not get rolling, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which had all the energy of a wilting lily, never managed to strike up a tune...