Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alec's title, but the blessings in this all- too-short autobiography (Knopf; $17.95) wear no masks. Along with an engaging picture of Guinness himself, there are candid and almost always hilarious portraits of some of those he has met along the way to his threescore and eleven: George Bernard Shaw, Tyrone Guthrie, Edith Evans, Martita Hunt, Noel Coward and even Ernie Kovacs, who, he says, was "just about the funniest man I have ever...
...which claimed that the loot and other Marcos wealth abroad legally belonged to the Filipino people. The Reagan Administration found itself caught between its desire to help the fledgling Aquino government and its promise to provide Marcos with a dignified exile. "These are complicated questions," said State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb of the treasure hunt. "We are sorting them out step by step...
Written by Bernard Slade...
...BERNARD SLADE, WHOEVER he is, probably thought he was pretty clever when he wrote Romantic Comedy. There are lots of parallels between the play in which the actors are acting and the plays they are writing during the play. They discuss the characters in their plays as if they are really just characters, when everyone knows that these characters are really the actors in the play we are watching. Sound confusing and convoluted? It's really not--not enough, that...
...Chicago, Burnett was monitored by the FBI on a 24-hour basis. He continued trying, unsuccessfully, to win a contract for S.R.S. to collect payment on $300 million worth of Chicago parking tickets, a process that involved alleged payoffs to four aldermen and a city administrator. S.R.S. Owner Bernard Sandow boasted to Burnett that the company had also bribed important New York City officials. The FBI was listening in: Sandow's bragging may have resulted in last week's indictment against Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former New York parking-violations-bureau official accused of extorting some $313,000 from S.R.S. alone...