Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company was assembled from recent descendants of pre-Mao mainland opera stars and graduates of the island's five Peking-opera schools. By Nationalist government command, leading performers from several theater and opera troupes were also recruited for the tour. This may pose a problem for those companies, because pressure is already building to make the National Chinese Opera Theater a permanent institution...
...theater," they explain, before they inherited the hotel), and George Clark as Cousin Warren keep everything except Uncle Harold's corpse (and maybe even that) above water most of the time. Lee Abraham, who directed and also plays Cosmic Debris, stands out--he's polished and in command all the way through...
Three Lockheed Hercules cargo planes have flown troops to Zamboanga, headquarters of the southwest Philippines command and a center of the fight against Moslems in Mindanao and the Sulu Islands, according to Philippine military officials...
...still has the limited power that his grandfather once used: to call political leaders in and command one to attempt to form a new government, and to perform such traditionally kingly duties as opening Parliament. Chances are that Carl Gustaf will prefer to ride with the times, rather than direct them. Under the new constitution, he will not even have a choice. The monarchy will be stripped of virtually all its powers and Carl Gustaf's role will become symbolic and ceremonial. He will no longer, for example, have the authority to appoint new governments, endorse legislation...
...single Hollywood extravaganza. The films -shot mainly in London and New York on tight, four-week schedules-were in effect subsidized by the artists. Directors were paid from $15,000 to $30,000 each, plus percentages from the future grosses of their productions. Hepburn and Marvin, who normally command six-figure salaries, worked for a token $25,-000 plus percentages; others worked for even less, lured by high-caliber colleagues, juicy roles and the chance to permanently record their performances in those roles on film. When Landau approached Marvin to play Hickey in Iceman, Marvin's answer...