Word: bunkers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paid staffers, 550,000 trained volunteers, operates in 190 countries, and was listed in the 90's as one of the country's biggest and most efficient charities. Bright diversified wildly: his second most successful product is the "JESUS" film, a celluloid gospel financed by Nelson Bunker Hunt that Bright calculates has played "to 4.2 billion people in 660 languages...
...EDITH IN THE BUNKER: Edith Wilson ran the executive branch, if not the whole government, during Woodrow Wilson's last year and a half in office, after he had a debilitating stroke. Former NYT reporter Phyllis Lee Levin tells the story of the Wilson presidency in "Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House" (Scribner; October 11). PW gives it a glowing starred review. "A beautifully written and impeccably researched account...These issues have been discussed in more than one previous history, but no other writer has gone as deeply into the archives to marshall the strong proof that Levin presents...
...Genoa, and the death of the protester Carlo Giuliani, to be remembered as the anti-globalizers' Bunker Hill, or its Altamont...
When All In The Family's Carroll O'Connor died last month, it was a great loss for TV. And a great gain. In the brutal summer of Fear Factor, America was actually talking about TV, the medium it loves to hate itself for loving. O'Connor's Archie Bunker, the consensus went, helped America make sense of a period of social turmoil in a way no news report ever could. In a way, O'Connor's media wake even outstripped that for Jack Lemmon, who died less than a week later, though TV actors usually land far lower...
DIED. CARROLL O'CONNOR, 76, Shakespeare-schooled actor who left an enduring mark on TV history as the coarse but lovable working-class bigot Archie Bunker on Norman Lear's All in the Family (1971-79); of a heart attack; in Culver City, Calif. O'Connor won four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Archie; he won another for his role as a liberal-minded Southern cop on the NBC drama In the Heat of the Night (1988-94). In his later years, after his drug- and alcohol-addicted son Hugh committed suicide in 1995, O'Connor became an outspoken...