Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love story that is laughable. The young man is enamored of Ali MacGraw, who is as pretty an older woman as she was a younger woman and, regrettably, is the same hopeless actress she has always been. It would require talent of a high order to make her role believable, however. She is supposed to be an international tycoon's kept woman. Unfortunately he keeps her very far away- in Mexico, while he is on a yacht off Monte Carlo. When he calls, she jumps, and all this abrupt, unexplained commuting takes its toll on Martin. A decent director...
Jack Kent Cooke signed checks worth $5 million to underwrite the first Ali-Frazier fight in 1971. He spent upwards of $10 million for 86% of the stock of the Washington Redskins. He bought the Los Angeles Lakers ($5.2 million in 1965) and in 1967 started a National Hockey League team called the Kings in, of all unlikely places, sunny Southern California. Then he built the $16 million Forum to house his athletic baubles. But the next check will read PAY TO THE ORDER OF JACK KENT COOKE. After 18 years as sport's premier entrepreneur, Cooke, 66, last...
...since the exile of the former Shah of Iran, reached a new low last week. On two successive days, tens of thousands of Iranians marched past the U.S. embassy in Tehran, shouting insults and condemning American "intervention" in Iranian affairs. In a speech to 50,000 of the demonstrators, Ali Akbar Hashimi Rafsanjani, a close associate of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, charged that U.S. policymakers were responsible for the death of every Iranian killed during the revolution. "Who gave the deposed Shah his weapons?" asked Rafsanjani. "Who supported him as long as he could kill?" At week...
...plot condenses the turmoil of the 1960s, exploring dislocations between generations, races and cultures. Lev, a Russian dissident, joins his family in the U.S. after 20 years of imprisonment. He finds that his disaffected son Yuri is entangled through a girlfriend in a feud with a Muhammad Ali-like superstar named Olympion. The feud erupts in a ritualistic race riot in which Yuri is nearly killed. Under its impact, all the relationships in the opera are splintered into despair and confusion...
...businessmen, both multimillionaires, were Habib Elghanian, a plastics manufacturer and the first Jew to be condemned, and Rahim Ali Khorram, a Muslim who owned a string of gambling casinos and bordellos. Elghanian,who was convicted of spying for Israel, was said to have made huge investments in Israel and to have solicited funds for the Israeli army, which the prosecution claimed made him an accomplice "in murderous air raids against innocent Palestinians." Witnesses against Khorram charged that he supplied prostitutes for the Shah's officials, once fed a man to a lion in his amusement park, and kept...