Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political gray eminence; of a heart attack; during a visit to Nevatim, a Negev agricultural village. Nicknamed "Bulldozer" for his drive and blunt pugnacity, burly, Polish-born Sapir immigrated to Palestine in 1929, was jailed by the British in 1933 for his militant labor organizing, and became David Ben-Gurion's roving weapons buyer during the 1948 war of independence. As Commerce and later Finance Minister for most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms and industrialization. A behind-the-scenes political...
...eighth day of deliberation, the jury of six men and six women announced that they had agreed on some points, disagreed on others, and "reached all verdicts that can be reached." U.S. District Judge Ben Krentzman sent them back into the wood-paneled jury room in Tampa, Fla., to deliberate further. After two more days, the jurors finally re-emerged last week with most of a verdict. Handsome, silver-haired ex-Senator Edward J. Gurney, 61, the first U.S. Senator in 50 years to be criminally indicted while in office, was found not guilty of bribery, of taking unlawful compensation...
...Spielberg turns it on full force, Swooping you up and whooshing you down, it's the fun of a fishy roller coaster ride. Spielberg is better at the slow thrills--that sort of slither up on you and let you fall quicker than the lightning shocks. The shot of Ben Gardner's one-eyed face was about as plastic and unbelievable as a horror house thrill at Disneyworld...
Volpene, by Ben Jonson, is another play you might want to catch before it departs July 31. It's being presented at an outdoor theater at 1175 Soldier's Field Road in Allston, Wednesday through Saturday at 8:30. Tickets cost...
...actors to keep up with it. As far as the acting, it calls for deft switches from mocking subtlety to intense passion. Ann Marie Beigel, who plays Regina, remains at a level of intense passion, posturing so much that she becomes a caricature: Steven Gilborn, who plays Ben Hubbard, the sly son who plots his father's destruction, settles for mocking subtlety, so it comes as something of a shock when he threatens his father with...