Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longtime protégé of late Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer was both a brilliant and ruthless politician. He kept his country at peace for twelve years. He launched a huge building program and virtually invented Dominican tourism, now a $90 million industry. But he permitted blatant corruption, and in recent years he allowed the economy, already suffering from a sharp drop in sugar prices, to falter. Of the country's 1.4 million workers, 20% are unemployed...
...that leave batters fuming. First Baseman Steve Garvey, ramrod straight in the batter's box, the Jock Armstrong of baseball, has had that regular Garvey year: M.V.P. in the All-Star game, hitting .289, with 84 runs batted in. Rightfielder Reggie Smith, who has been alternately brooding or brilliant in the past for Boston and St. Louis, is now a happily artful Dodger. He has a tremendous arm, a pulverizing bat and looks like the best rightfielder in the league. Hot Reggie has been at least one reason why the Dodgers have drawn so well. This year they...
...Yorkers and visitors came to Central Park's Sheep Meadow. They laid out blankets and picnic suppers, bottles of wine and sleeping babies, and settled down to listen to the New York Philharmonic play a program culminating in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. At the finale, brilliant salvos of fireworks...
...obviously, is Peter Sellers' bumbling Inspector Clouseau. Sellers, the most brilliant impersonator in movies, scores highest in constricted caracatures where much is made of a given character's lack of awareness (particularly personal awareness--a lack of self-consciousness). In other words, Sellers is at his best when he is smallest, and Clouseau's oblivious, unfazed determination is the perfect vehicle for him. But whenever these little men become romantic, as in Edwards' The Party or Strikes Again, Sellers begins to take himself more seriously (his narcissism, unfortunately, bleeds through even when these characters fumble their love-making attempts...
...backdrop is Wales, with wild flowers in brilliant bloom. And in the foreground is another vision of natural beauty: Katharine Hepburn. If she looks a bit like some high-spirited English school mistress, that's because she is. On location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine...