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...takes on Broadway producers after she gets fired from their show. JOANNA PACITTI earned the title role in the revival of the '70s musical Annie by winning a splashy, highly publicized talent contest. But after more than 100 performances on the road, producers executed what a tabloid called a "coup d'tot" and replaced her with understudy Brittny Kissinger. "The actress and the part never came together the way we felt they needed to," said producer Timothy Childs. "My heart was cut in half," says Joanna, whose parents have threatened to sue for breach of promise if their daughter doesn...
...movie by a firm called International Film & Records. After the fight he could not reach IFR for postproduction funds. Later he learned that the company's sole shareholder was Stephen Talbot, Finance Minister of Liberia. Talbot had died in a plane crash; his associate was executed in a Liberian coup, as Gast learned when he saw a TIME photo of the man standing before a firing squad...
...exhibition focus on the developing Soviet economy, which looks so promising from the propaganda (and at the time seemed so fruitful from the input-intensive growth experienced by the Soviets early on), that we can understand how the revolution appealed to so many intellectuals who participated in Lenin's coup. The government's efforts to bring electricity to the whole of its parts certainly proved an inspiring theme for much of the Soviet propaganda. Other posters' promise of education--as well as the illustration of the illiterate as one blindly walking off of a cliff--show the importance of learning...
...Bobo] had so many job offers it was amazing," said Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department. "His work is very exciting, pathbreaking.... It's a major coup...
...years later, Fujimori seized near dictatorial powers in a "self-coup" that savaged virtually every democratic institution in the country but enabled him to implement draconian security measures that eventually crippled both rebel movements. By 1993 Abymael Guzman, the Shining Path warlord whose face had not been seen in 25 years, was in jail and Polay had been recaptured. An elated Fujimori boasted to a Chilean reporter that "no one here in Peru any longer doubts that [Tupac Amaru] will be defeated this year...