Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council member, he believes that he was sometimes misrepresented by the Harvard media. "There are times when I felt the council was being unfairly portrayed," he says. "I never went around boasting, and yet I felt we got cast as politicians and egotistical slobs which we weren't," he says...
...when Pons and Fleischmann claimed that they had achieved fusion at room temperature with relatively inexpensive equipment, the two scientists were cast in an unfamiliar role--that of celebrities...
...time since martial law was declared, receiving -- as if to underscore his legitimacy -- a covey of newly arrived ambassadors. The Premier declared that the soldiers would move into Beijing as soon as the city's residents understood the need to restore order. From all available signs, Deng Xiaoping had cast his lot with the hard- line faction headed by Li. The losers were a more reformist group led by party chief Zhao Ziyang. Diplomatic sources said that Zhao had been stripped of his power, although perhaps not his title, and put under house arrest for daring to challenge the paramount...
...more than a million citizens take to the streets demanding democratic / reforms, officials move to put down the embarrassing challenge to their authority. -- Survivors of the Cultural Revolution reflect on the current unrest. -- Soviet officials wryly cast the best light on Gorbachev's upstaged mission...
...gained a twilight twinkle. He is the movies' sexiest, most majestic older star. And yet at 58 Connery was thought too young to play Indy's father, who was originally conceived as a crotchety gent like On Golden Pond's Henry Fonda. It was Spielberg's idea to cast Connery, a decision that illuminated the film and its filming. "When Sean and Harrison arrived on the set," Spielberg recalls, "everyone got quiet and respectful. The two are like royalty -- not the royalty you fear because they can tax you, but the royalty you love because they will make your lives...