Word: ashcroft
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...handles nearly all of Jewel's haunted souls with understated urgency. As the gawky Daphne, Wooldridge is a particular marvel. Eyes wide and full of a startled innocence, she galumphs through life with such sweet diffidence that plainness itself seems radiant. An equally luminous pathos surrounds Dame Peggy Ashcroft's Barbie Batchelor, a sad little figure of baffled devotion who has little to do save muddle through her final days "very tired and old and far from home...
...Missouri, the G.O.P. retained the governorship that Christopher ("Kit") Bond was required to give up after serving two terms. His successor: Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, a born-again Christian who sometimes ended his stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...
...Preciacts Arkansos E--Bill Clinton (D)* 315.594 64 61 Elwood Freeman (R) 179.209 36 Delaware William Quillen (D) 107.736 45 100 E--Michael Castle (R) 133.892 55 Indiana Wayne Townsend (D) 889.906 47 86 E--Robert Orr (R) 995.526 53 Missoun Kenneth Rothman (D) 569.343 41 86 E--John Ashcroft (R) 810.642 59 Montana E--Ted Schwinden (D)* 68.875 70 29 Pat Goodover (R) 26.222 27 New Hampshire Chris Spirou (D) 56.992 34 61 E--John Sununu (R)* 111.283 66 North Carolina Rufus Edmisten(D) 757.479 45 80 E--James Martin (R) 918.769 55 North Dakota E--George Sinner...
...points ahead of Democrat Wayne Owens, 47, a former Congressman. Owens has been reduced to pleading for votes as a check on the G.O.P.'s possession of every top elective job in the state. In Missouri, where the incumbent is ineligible to run again, Republican Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, is locked in a close contest with Lieutenant Governor Kenneth Rothman...
...their Agatha Christie projects (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun), and jumped at the chance to work with Lean. On the set he was free to wander, plucking shots of the 235 crew members and a cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean's since the 1940s, when he was featured in the director's memorable adaptations of Dickens' Great Expectations and Oliver Twist...