Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shoot, Jim! Shoot!" For 25 years that insistent cry--half command, half appeal--has been heard around the world, or wherever cameras have been set up for a Merchant-Ivory production. From India (Heat and Dust) to Boston (The Bostonians) to Florence (A Room with a View), Ismail Merchant, the producer part of the team, has been pleading with James Ivory, his directing partner, please, please to hurry up: time is short and money is shorter. So constant was the refrain on the English sets of their newest picture, Maurice, that when filming ended last month the cast...
...offer had all the first-glance appeal that observers have learned to expect from recent Soviet peace proposals. It came from Afghan Communist Party Leader Najibullah, who said last week that his Soviet-backed government would observe the first cease-fire in its seven-year war against the country's Muslim rebels. Najibullah, who was installed last May with the support of the 120,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan, said the truce would begin...
WHAT GAVE the staged Little Shop its appeal was the purity of its homage to Cliche. Writer and lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken built their Little Shop out of an inestimable number of dramatic, social, cinematic and musical commonplaces. Superficially, it followed the plot of the Corman picture, but it also obeyed dramatic rules enforced through the millenia: the Ashman/Menken Little Shop was a carefully structured Greek tragedy, replete with chorus, hero, dilemma, tragic flaw, catastrophic misstep and ultimate retribution. Snappy Chiffons-type songs and bouffant hairdos notwithstanding, the resolution of Little Shop was closer to that...
...frail nuclear physicist also tackled human rights. "It is impermissible for our country to have prisoners of conscience and people who suffer for their convictions," he said. "I will do everything within my power to have this stopped." One day later Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner issued an appeal on behalf of a Soviet family that had been seeking to emigrate to France...
Pointedly, she queried the professor about how to appeal to the undecided voters. "Do the people understand abstract things like truth, justice and freedom that I always talk about or do they only understand material things?" The professor was evasive, so Cory described a trip she had made as chairman of a drive to aid the economically depressed island of Negros. "The people welcomed me, but it was because I was bringing them a check, which meant rice for them," she said frankly. "I have the impression that if elections are held, we are lost, because only Marcos can give...