Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several are foreigners, and Stein, who brought them together, provides some background: Julio Santo Domingo is a Colombian "whose father runs Avianca Airlines," Giora Rachminov is an Israeli "who does diamonds," and Mimmo Ferretti is the son of a Milanese clothing manufacturer. Ferretti is a last-minute replacement for Baron Roger de Cabrol, who is sick. "We wanted to call the band Euro-trash," Stein says, "but, instead, they're called the Greencards." He is grinning: a green card is the Government document issued to resident aliens...
...Prime Minister's aide-de-camp, Lieut. Colonel Azriel Nevo, to pass along an American diplomat's report of trouble in the refugee camps. Last week Nevo testified that, "as far as I can remember," he had not even talked with Bar-On that Friday. Asked Kahan: "BarOn did not speak with you that evening?" Replied Nevo: "Did not speak. He says that he called me at my home, but I was not there." Pressed Kahan: "There was no conversation, either about the camps or about any other subject?" Said Nevo: "No, no." Begin had told the commission...
...Hazel Park Lounge and Bowl is full. The men's Monday-night bowling league has arrived. The cars bear testimony to hard times. In the '70s, the boom years, those cars would have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS UP FOR MICHIGAN...
Fitzcarraldo is unusual for a Herzog film in providing a gallery of delightful supporting performances. Claudia Cardinale, as Fitz's mistress Molly, radiates sensuality like a healthy year-round suntan. Jose Lewgoy, who plays an unscrupulous rubber baron, takes immense and innocent pleasure in his character's venality. Miguel Angel Fuentes, the boat's mechanic, is a huge ivory totem, twice as large as Arnold Schwarzenegger and with three times the dark charm. Grande Othelo, who starred 40 years ago in Orson Welles' unfinished film It's All True, is the wrinkled old retainer...
...known chiefly for its Pratt & Whitney jet engines. Since then, he has expanded by buying several firms, including Otis Elevator in 1976 and Carrier, the air-conditioner manufacturer, in 1979. Over the years, Gray's opponents have reportedly called the slow-speaking but fast-moving Georgian a robber baron, a buzzard, Dracula, Jack the Ripper and King Kong. Few of his takeover thrusts have been thwarted, however...