Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encountered many bureaucratic problems because of it. He says he gave up on fulfilling the complicated distribution requirements after his freshman proctor could not explain them. Thus Huang never took enough Humanities courses, and he only recently received permission to graduate when administrators allowed him to count Historical Study B-56, "The Russian Revolution," as a Humanities course. "I guess they don't want to hassle most seniors," he says...
...Before Casablanca and the Cafe Americain, he played football at the University of Nebraska, organized farm workers in California, fought against fascism in Spain and played the black market in Paris. There he met Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), a language teacher and daughter of a bankrupt Swedish count, who will survive the war to subtitle Ingmar Bergman films, model for Edward Hopper and become Dag Hammarskjold's assistant. She died with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1961 when their plane crashed in Africa. Blaine, a probable alcoholic and possible homosexual, died in 1949. He had lived...
...even wunderkinder can make false starts. For his second effort at Kennedy Center -- and his first as director -- Sellars has fashioned a dazzlingly original production of The Count of Monte Cristo. Exhuming this melodramatic war-horse, a stage version of Alexandre Dumas's novel that James O'Neill (Eugene's father) adapted and toured in for 30 years, was just the first of Sellars' bold choices. In program notes, he proclaims that "the evening contains at least five different plays, each with its own method and tone"; cites influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and D.W. Griffith; and even warns...
...anniversary of the 1980 uprising at Kwangju, 200 miles south of Seoul, in which thousands of students took over the provincial capital to protest the declaration of martial law. After South Korean troops moved in to put down the Kwangju uprising, 191 people were killed, according to the official count. Other estimates put the toll as high as 1,000. The U.S., say Washington officials, approved the sending of only one of the divisions that brutally recaptured the city. Nonetheless, some critics of the Chun government still hold the U.S. partly accountable for the slaughter. To many of Chun...
...Bond, impervious to pain, implacable in the face of impossible odds and impeccable in his skill with any weapon that comes to hand, be it his own customized bowie knife or the Vietnamese helicopter he casually appropriates for the finale. The long sequences in which he builds his body count to inestimable levels are well designed and well executed by Director Cosmatos. They are, in fact, so compelling that one tends to chortle in anticipation of Rambo's next superhero ploy, exploding with glee when it exceeds expectations. Oh, well, time enough for shame later, whispers a conscience befuddled...