Word: beckers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Becker, a spokesman for the Pentagon Public Affairs Office said the blacklisting policy was not a retaliation against colleges that cut ROTC...
...state force has installed CB sets at its own expense, troopers are reaching the scene of serious accidents in one-third the time it took two years ago. "If you want to travel safely, the only way to go is CB," says Kansas Highway Patrol Sergeant Oscar Becker. He adds dryly: "And there's a lot more wit on CB than you'll get on TV." Perhaps. From the elevated perch in a truck cab, drivers are ever alert to the virtues of attractive legs in passing cars. Reported one who got but a fleeting glance...
...most imposing Wotan in the business. Since there are few good Wotans around now and since Tyl has a rich Heldenbariton, he seems to have a bright future. As Brünnhilde, Norway's Ingrid Bjoner sings the music with yearning and power. Germany's Herbert Becker (Siegmund and Siegfried) is not the most passionate Heldentenor around, but he sings all the music-and that in itself is no small achievement-with taste and control. The character parts are well cast, particularly the dwarfs Alberich and Mime (Malcolm Rivers and Paul Crook) and the scheming Hagen (William Wildermann...
...cast-with Becker replaced by California's Claude Heater as Siegmund and New York's James McCray as Siegfried, and Bjoner by England's Anna Green-did not seem overly happy about the English. One would think that an American would love the idea. Not so. Says Tyl, one of several singers who appeared in both versions: "Any American who has learned a role in German has two tapes going in his mind-the original and the English he thinks by. When you throw in a third tape [the Porter], man, you've got trouble...
...case, if V.P.S. gets no takers, the negative of the film will "soon" be cut to conform with Becker's recasting...