Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thatcher pounded the table with the palm of her hand, railing against bowing down to aggression and arguing adamantly for a return to the status quo ante. "You must never forget," she would tell her stunned American guests, evoking the specter of pre-World War II appeasement, "that Neville Chamberlain sat at this very table...
...wife (Blythe Danner) surveys the panoply and calls it "a dress rehearsal for disaster." It was no dress rehearsal; it was a superproduction of the real thing, and the main characters acted as if they were in their own movie. Hitler (Derek Jacobi) does malicious impersonations of Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself at a filmed rally and mouths the Führer's words. He was both the big star and his biggest fan. And Speer (Rutger Hauer)-the young architect who became "the nearest thing Hitler...
...unkindness shown Georgetown's 7-ft. freshman center, Patrick Ewing, including a death threat. Although Ralph Sampson of Virginia is two years older and 4 in. taller, Ewing is the awesome figure in college basketball now. He figures to play Bill Russell to Sampson's Wilt Chamberlain in pro seasons ahead. But for the present, Ewing has been a focus of cynicism. Records have been broken this year for cruelty in the stands, and the normal expression on Ewing's face has been a bolt of anger. When...
Playing for the Celtics "is a dream," he says. "When I was a kid. I used to dream about playing on the team that had Russell and Chamberlain. When I got the opportunity through free agency, I left Detroit to come here...
There are sympathizers in the would-be adoptive state. Last week Wyoming State Representative Douglas Chamberlain introduced a bill supporting the secessionists. He got only 29 of the 40 necessary votes, but plans another try next year. "The general feeling," says Mary Paxson, of Torrington, Wyo., "is that it's never going to happen. We're nattered that they want us, but we really don't need them...