Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some are a bit florid, but the best tunes (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers...
...exposure became intense last fall, when Darman was chosen to play Michael Dukakis in preparing Bush for the debates. "One of the reasons he was picked," says Bush's media adviser, Roger Ailes, "was his reputation for being aloof and arrogant, just like Dukakis." Though tough in the sparring, Darman softened his performances with humor. At the end of one mock match, he entertained Bush by donning a tank helmet like the one Dukakis wore in a TV ad. Next round, he displayed a pair of Heavyhands, the weights Dukakis uses in speed-walking. In the critique sessions afterward, Ailes...
...last week it seemed as if the trial would never start at all. It had already been delayed for five months beyond its first tentative date by the endless dispute about secret documents. Finally an agreement permitted the selection of jurors. Then, just as the last jurors were being chosen, the Justice Department moved in with yet another objection...
Hvenegaard, now 14, was chosen to play Pelle from an audition against 4000 other young actors. Before the filming of Pelle, he had never acted before and was chosen to audition based on a photograph sent to the producers of the movie. Interestingly enough, his mother named him for the lead character of Nexo's novel while she was still pregnant...
Some Harvard students do a lot of activities and do them all fairly well. Some other students have chosen to become a standout in just one or two specific areas...