Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proud." The year was 1968, an exhilarating time of Black Pride, Black Power and slogans like "Black Is Beautiful." "Black" became more than a racial characterization; it was an assertion of social and political self-definition. The terms colored and Negro, in common use as late as 1967, were cast off as labels of second-class citizenship...
DINNER AT EIGHT The classic dawn-of-the-Depression satire was hauntingly revived by New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. A superb cast of 24 included Elizabeth Wilson as the pathetic social climber and Charles Keating as the broken-down actor immortalized on film by John Barrymore...
PARTING THE WATERS by Taylor Branch. The magisterial first of two projected volumes devoted to the U.S. civil rights movement takes Martin Luther King Jr. -- and a huge supporting cast -- through boycotts, sit-ins and marches...
...soon en route to maman, with fatal consequences for her. From that fiery shoot-out until checkmate, the contest becomes increasingly taut, vicious and engaging. At each turn, Laemmle edges closer to his goal. At every escape, Thomas becomes a little wearier, a trifle more dependent on a cast of peasants, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and devious intelligence operatives. None are so devious or inventive as he is. The most adept, of course, proves to be Quartermain, flown in to rescue the child of his brief and passionate liaison with Maria...
...Miller (Biloxi Blues) portray the young lovers, and it is hard to imagine that their soda-shop infatuation scene has ever been performed better. Miller, though, is not quite up to the last act's demands of kittenish adolescence combined with otherworldly grace. The rest of the 27- member cast is solid, and Peter Maloney is memorable as Emily's jocular yet practical father...