Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials concede that Shamir, as one put it, "comes across without the charisma that characterized Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and Menachem Begin." Washington was uncertain too whether Shamir's apparent flexibility will lead to any substantive policy shifts by Israel. But the Prime Minister's first visit provided grounds for encouragement. "He was shrewd, tough and smart," said one U.S. official who took part in the meetings. "His focus was on programs and practical decision making...
...very realistic, while the nuns wear stylized haloes--but with both costumes and set pieces, the whole lacks any recognizable greater design. Many of the more striking effects--fireworks in the last scene, the introduction of an enormous horse male out of two people, or the use of actor Ben Halley's falsetto--seem included merely because someone realized they were possible. The one exception is the music, written and directed for the show by William Uttley, which seemed to have been given considerable thought...
...production is full of independently satisfying results its music, visual effects, and acting. Of the minor characters, Ben Halley Jr. as the Provost, Jeremy Geidt as Escalus, and John Bottoms as Pompey turn in strong performances. But as a whole Andrei Belgrader's direction lacks a sufficiently strong vision of the play as a whole to dominate the individual elements and fuse them into a coherent interpretation, something intellectual satisfying rather than merely titillating...
...came under bombardment and that one of them had reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown. Finally, after weeks of secret negotiations, Israel took the first step: it freed 1,100 Palestinians, most of whom had been held at the Ansar prison camp in southern Lebanon, and flew them to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, from which Air France jetliners carried them on to Algeria...
Scarface takes its title, plot and comic-grotesque tone from a 1932 film directed by Howard Hawks, written by Ben Hecht and John Lee Mahin and starring Paul Muni as a lightly fictionalized, heavily romanticized Al Capone. That Scarface ran 90 minutes; this one ambles along at nearly twice the length. The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse...