Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani, candidate of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, left all rivals for the country's presidency far behind by polling an outright majority, 54% of the estimated 1 million ballots cast. Cristiani's victory, however, was muted by a voter turnout of only about 50%. The high rate of abstentions translated in part to support for the boycotting Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist guerrilla force that has battled for power for the past nine years...
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Margaret Thatcher's England...
CAFE CROWN. This revival is not much of a play, but Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Bob Dishy head a splendid cast that adroitly and affectionately recalls the Manhattan heyday of Jewish theater...
...Staff morale is low, and some warn that the network's tightfisted attitude will doom it to the news-ratings cellar. Gartner insists that NBC is not opposed to paying high salaries to the right people but argues, almost quaintly, that by rejecting Chung's money demands, the network cast a vote for old-fashioned news values. "For $2 million," he says, "you can buy an awful lot of journalistic horsepower." True enough. But in the high-stakes world of TV news, a strong bench doesn't often win a pennant...
Despite its theological proppings, A Prayer for Owen Meany is a fable of political predestination. As usual, Irving delivers a boisterous cast, a spirited story line and a quality of prose that is frequently underestimated, even by his admirers. On the other hand, the novel invites trespass by symbol hunters. One can easily imagine college sophomores arguing over the meaning of a stuffed armadillo that has had its claws removed, or the significance of Wheelwright's carrying his small friend on his shoulders to slam-dunk a basketball. For graduate students there is the fact that Meany shares more than...