Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ryan O'Neal does an admirable job of acting, but Ali MacGraw may have performed a miracle for Hollywood. She is an echo of a time when Celluloid City really was the dream factory. For Tinsel Town, she represents not only an irretrievable past but a plausible future. To moviemakers, she is the Girl Who Made Love Story Happen after six major studios had turned it down-the actress who was moved, she says, by the script's "straight, basic, clean emotion." She is today's closest approximation of the old-style star, with the Beverly Hills...
...first denied the comment, was less abject than adenoidal, even though his remark had lit up the network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett and noted, accurately, that some of his best friends were black, including Muhammad Ali, Willie Stargell and Sugar Ray Leonard. "I was bragging on him [Garrett] with affection," spouted the righteous sportscaster, adding, "My record as far as race relations is supreme...
With its military deterrent in place, France embarked on the delicate task of seeking a diplomatic solution. In Brazzaville, French Minister of Cooperation and Development Christian Nucci spoke for an hour with the Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, Abdessalam Ali Triki. Earlier, Mitterrand had sent his special adviser on African affairs, Guy Penne, to meet withHabré in N'Djamena. Although the Chadian President had previously branded Penne a "poor imbecile" who was the head of a "pro-Libyan lobby,"Habré said after the meeting that his relations with France were "clear and unambiguous."Habr...
...Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico and Czestochowa in his native Poland. But a prospective 1981 visit to the most famous shrine of all, at Lourdes in southwestern France, had to be postponed when the Pope was shot in St. Peter's Square by Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca. John Paul believes that he owes his recovery from that attack to the Virgin Mary. Thus his two-day trip to Lourdes last week, marking the 125th anniversary of a shrine associated with healing, was a kind of thanks...
...with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Germany's pre-eminent stage and film director died last year at 36, a fat, wasted mess, bloated with drink and drugs like so many of his movies' protagonists. Yet his films, such as Ali and The Marriage of Maria Braun, were models of brisk precision (they had to be: he made 40 or so in only 13 years), and his camera was a most fastidious voyeur, observing every ruction of sexual violence with sympathy at a distance. Döblin and Fassbinder were a perfect book-and-movie match, and the young director...