Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some of the tunes are a bit florid, but the best (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers...
...move galvanized the U.S. into action. President George Bush quickly called for a phaseout of all CFC production in the U.S. by the year 2000, if adequate substitutes can be found. Senator Al Gore, a Tennessee Democrat, introduced a bill in Congress requiring the U.S. to phase out all CFCs in five years...
...beginning of the season a lot of people thought that our goalie position would be a big question mark, but Chuckie and Al have really come through, and, of course, Mike Francis continues to be strong for us," Captain Lane MacDonald says. "It's turned out to be a position where we have a great deal of depth...
...Al's more of a technique goaltender," Harvard Captain Lane MacDonald says. "Fundamentally, he is very solid and he is very quick...
...country, others argued that the case had been blown out of proportion. Hassan Saab, an adviser to the Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Lebanon, called Rushdie "an insignificant writer who has attacked a great prophet." He asked, "What harm has befallen the Prophet?" In Egypt the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheik Gad el-Haq Ali Gad el-Haq, noted that the net effect of the furor had been to increase the book's sales and profits "by astronomical figures." It would be far better, he suggested, if Islamic scholars prepared their own book refuting Rushdie's "lies...