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...even tried to pass off George Foreman as a Belgian.) Yet he never sounded as mean spirited, as hateful and hurt, as Holmes does now. "If Cooney wasn't white, he'd be nothing," says Holmes. "I'm going to cut him, hurt him, open his lip, blacken his eye?for justice's sake. They talk about his great left hook. But what am I, a little child? He's two inches taller [maybe three or four]. Big deal. I'm going to carry him to punish him. And when the referee breaks us, I'm going...
Cromwell's sidekick Rich grapples his way up the ladder to success. Betraying his friendship to More, he aids malicious attempts to blacken More's reputation with the King. T.H. Culhane gives his character appropriately rat-like and fidgety movements. Rich is not a man: he's a rodent. These roles lend themselves as do most of the others to clear-cut interpretations and motivations. More blocks Cromwell's and Rich's influence with the King. Therefore, More must be removed. And what better way than forcing a conflict between the two strong willed men. Henry and More, in which...
...embarrassing demonstrations during Sadat's visit to Washington and New York City. Increasingly angered by Shenouda's actions, Sadat, who has tried hard to cultivate good relations with his country's Christians, accused the "new leadership" of the Coptic church of engaging in a "conspiracy" to blacken his name and the image of Egypt's Muslims...
...role. It's set in the French Revolution; Andrea Chenier is a poet who's condemned to death, and in the last act there's a trial by a revolutionary court, and everything's in chaos. So we extras really got into being a mob peasant jury--we'd blacken in teeth and wear wigs with hair sticking out, and put filth all over ourselves and make ourselves extra ugly. And then we'd sit in the juror's box on stage and chat and throw things and have a great time. I didn't like the rest...
...John Blacken, an assistant to Andrew Young, United States Ambassador to the U.N., will give the closing speech Sunday night, Levin said...