Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite up to her Brenda Patimkin in 1969's Goodbye, Columbus. But-by Academy standards-didn't the film deserve a big prize for being one of Hollywood's all time runaway box-office triumphs (well over $30 million so far)? And hadn't Ali's husband, Bob Evans, earned an Oscar or two for his contributions to Paramount's growing profits...
Sheer Merit. Ali, as it turned out, knew better than a lot of insiders. A week before the awards ceremony, she and Bob and another couple had written down their predictions and sealed them in envelopes, with a bottle of champagne to go to the winner of their contest. Ali missed only one of the eight major awards: she picked Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces) as best supporting actress instead of Winner Helen Hayes (Airport). Otherwise, though, Mrs. Evans was as prescient as could be: she correctly named Patton for best picture, best direction (Franklin J. Schaffner), best actor (George...
...Hope consoled Ali McGraw and company, saying, "Winning an Oscar means never having to say you're sorry...
...vehemence. "Brothers," he would say to his Bengali followers, "do you know that the streets of Karachi are lined with gold? Do you want to take back that gold? Then raise your hands and join me." He was first jailed in 1948, when he demonstrated against Pakistan Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah for proclaiming Urdu the new nation's lingua franca...
...remained, in many respects, a political moderate. He is a social democrat who favors nationalizing major industries, banks and insurance companies. In foreign policy too he follows a middle course. Where West Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto favors closer ties with China and the Soviet Union and is stridently anti-Indian, Mujib would like to trade with India and is regarded as moderately pro-Western...