Word: amalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commercial and student section of Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after an unsuccessful try in 1974; and Lady Amalia Fleming, widow of penicillin's discoverer, a bacteriologist and a political prisoner under the junta...
...revival, She Loves Me has the faded fragrance of a pressed flower. The musical is shamelessly romantic, head over heels in love with love. Amalia (Madeline Kahn) and Georg (Barry Bostwick) are secretly lonely-heart pen pals who have corresponded ardently for a year. Neither happens to have given the other a clue to the fact that they are fellow clerks in the same Budapest parfumerie. Ecstatic about each other in print, they are rather allergic to each other in person. When will the epistolary lovers discover the secret behind their secret? With all the fine talents caroling and cavorting...
...regime had secretly negotiated with Bonn to let the famous prisoner go (Mangakis is a close friend of West German Federal Cabinet Minister Horst Ehmke). Such arrangements, at U.S., French or British instigation, had previously resulted in the release of Professor Andreas Papandreou, Composer Mikis Theodorakis and Lady Amalia Fleming...
...Amalia Balash, the resourceful salesgirl who carries to her rendezvous a copy of Anna Karena and a telltale rose, Joanna Paps tempers her sure comic sense with a full-bodied soprano that is equally effective. Terry Emerson is her unknown admirer, the kind of man who might place an ad (Gentleman, 30, seeks refined, sensitive young lady for conversation and mutual exchange) in the back pages of the New York Review. To his unassuming graces fall the title song and a handful of comic duets...
...Greek police had gone to extraordinary lengths to try to avoid arresting Lady Amalia Fleming. She is, after all, the widow of Britain's Sir Alexander Fleming, who won the 1945 Nobel Prize for his discovery of penicillin. Because of his marriage to Greek-born Amalia, the achievement is particularly honored in Greece, where nearly every village has a Fleming Street. Lady Fleming, 62, is a noted bacteriologist in her own right and a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance. Thus when the police were tipped off that she was involved in a plot to spring their...