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...chair on the stage of the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower The ater, Ralph Richardson somewhat resembles Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. His legs are squared apart and appear sturdily embedded in stone. His arms are welded to the arm rests, yet they seem mobilized to catapult him into action. His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time. As with Churchill, a pixie lurks beneath Richardson's countenance, momentarily threatening to bolt into some unpredictable bit of mischief...
...office in 1877, Ulysses and Julia embarked on a two-year world tour. Grant dined with Queen Victoria, discussed war with Bismarck, and noted, with eerie precognition, the sorry history of colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The triumphal trip was not enough to catapult him back into office for the third term he sought in 1880. Still, his peculiar luck held. James Garfield, who won, was assassinated just months after Inauguration...
...calamity comes at the same time as the start of the 1980 Olympics, which NBC was to have covered and which promised to be one of the network's greatest achievements. Silverman hoped to repeat his performance of four years ago, when he used the Games to help catapult then lowly ABC to No. 1 in the ratings...
...other blights that bedevil Italian urban centers. A model government in Bologna, successfully run by Communists since 1945, had inspired millions of voters to believe that the Communists were brilliant city managers. Riding the wave of that single reputation, the party hoped to produce showpiece regimes that would help catapult the Communists to national power by the sheer force of local example...
...Marley, a highly political performer who helped catapult reggae music from relative obscurity to a highly popular form in Europe and America, will be the main attraction of the benefit concert...