Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening fire on as many unsuspecting groups of people as possible. In the country, peasants began seizing land that the French "colons" had abandoned, and within the FLN there were debilitating power struggles, particularly between members of the intellectual elite and the less well-educated war heroes. Even after Ben Bella established himself as premier with Boumidienne as his powerful minister of national defense there was still the problem of a colonial economy dependent upon tourism and the exportation of fruits, wine and minerals...
...Ben H. Cornell...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Directed by the author himself (Edward Albee), and starring Ben Gazzara and colleen Dewhurst. At the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St., in Boston, through March 27. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., matinees Thursday and Saturday...
Last week Truitt, now 54 and living in Mexico, added an occult dimension to the Kennedy-Meyer story. Four years after her death, Truitt says, he took Meyer's sister and brother-in-law, Toni and Ben Bradlee, to the small Maryland town of Westminster. There the trio allegedly made contact with the deceased artist with the help of a local medium. As Truitt tells it, Meyer described her burial place in Milford, Pa., then told her audience: "Jack is here. Bobby is here now"-meaning Robert Kennedy, who was killed earlier that year. If Meyer did talk, however...
Side Notes. Again like many jazz musicians-Thelonius Monk, for one -Cassavetes is most interested in the pauses and side notes everyone else passes over. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is another of the director's blitzed meditations on life at the edge. Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff...