Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ben Halley, Jr. should learn how to slur. His excruciatingly enunciated diction gets very tiring play after play, and seems inappropriate for the low comic role of Costard. The same self-indulgence that drove Kilty to play Don Armado marks his performance...
...eight romantics, Kilty grants only the men the opportunity to let go. During a scene in which the love-smitten Spaniards spy on each other mooning over their loved one's virtues, only Ben Evett crosses the line into the merely silly. The foursome fare much better disguised as dancing Cossacks, taking their roles a little less seriously. Thomas Derrah stuffs King Ferdinand's shirt full enough to make his vow seem like an everyday stunt. Jones, as the Princess, is unable to cut as distinctive a swath, and of her attendants, only Laurie Gallucio appears as a likely candidate...
...million on $6 billion in sales, and last year it made $54 million on almost the same amount. In contrast, Sears earned $1.5 billion on sales of $38.8 billion. After launching the Montgomery Ward reorganization, Brennan left to run Household Merchandising, the company that embraces T.G.&Y. and Ben Franklin variety stores. The president's job at Montgomery Ward opened up in January, when Pistner resigned to become senior vice president of the Rapid- American retail empire...
...afraid, perhaps, but sometimes bitter. Villagers around Ben Tre talk of defoliants--Agent Orange--sprayed by U.S. aircraft killing the coconut trees that provided the main source of their income. Vo Van Canh, 49, a former Viet Cong, points to his 17-year-old son, who has the arrested development of a two-year-old, the result, says Vo, of dioxin poisoning. At the Tu Du Women's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc says her studies, though not conclusive, suggest that women exposed to the defoliants have 15 times as many fetal deaths as those...
...ghosts of war linger everywhere. On a river at Ben Tre, children fish from the bow of a half-submerged U.S. patrol boat; the deck gun is shrouded in laundry. Near the northern port of Da Nang, where a scattering of Soviet and Polish tourists sunbathe on quiet beaches, hillsides are dotted with the carcasses of U.S. armor. At Camp Holloway, in the Central Highlands, youngsters play outside the old U.S. barracks, while visitors can still make out THE SWAMP scrawled across the wall of the club in which helicopter pilots used to unwind. And outside the shattered Citadel...