Word: alter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because he obviously wanted to ingratiate himself with and win back his audience, and was therefore careful not to push that audience too hard. Un intentionally, though, the film contains some true and poignant moments as Chaplin, the international celebrity, demonstrates his isolation and unworldliness through his fictional alter ego, and his consequent vulnerability to the prying and exploitation of the press and television. This was a subject Chaplin knew all about. When the King becomes an unwitting participant in a Candid Camera-type TV show or wittingly attempts to make a living by endorsing cheap booze, he finds...
...Your article "Murder of the Alter Ego," about the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco [Dec. 31], concludes with the statement: "The aging Franco had only two choices-to liberalize his regime or face the threat of having his country racked by more violence...
...silent violence." One group of former employees is suing P.C.C. for $100 million in damages; some individuals are also bringing $ 1 million suits against the Government for failing to protect them. But neither the suits nor any belated medical care that the workers may now receive are likely to alter the odds against their survival. Now that they have been exposed to asbestos, the deck is stacked...
...play laced with some of Shakespeare's most musical poetry, Richardson delivers his lines with inflexible metronomic monotony. Only Richard Pasco as Bolingbroke has a regal voice and bearing. He and Richardson switch roles at every other performance, but Pasco does not alter the effete interpretation of the King...
...those who supported him claimed there would be little change during the one year that the proposal would be in effect. If the resolution proved to have adverse affects, they argued, it could be repealed by next year's CHUL. But this argument does not justify the move to alter Radcliffe, and anyone who has followed the history of Harvard housing plans knows that "temporary" solutions are often difficult to revoke...