Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from Bibi and Harriet Andersson to Liv Ullmann and Lena Olin. Even after retiring as a film director, Bergman was still an ace casting director. This time he insisted that Ostergren, who played the maid in Fanny and Alexander, be cast as Anna. It is the film's great coup. She is not exactly beautiful, but her conviction and radiance carry the story's emotional burden: that such a woman could love such a man. The strength of her love is an almost mystical mystery that Bergman dare not explain, or even understand, but is pleased to present...
...year-old Algerian head of state. Boudiaf may have thought he was merely making a philosophical point in his address to a crowd at a cultural center in the Mediterranean port city of Annaba. It was his first trip outside Algiers since he took office after a military coup in January. In the confusion and panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by gunfire and grenades...
Such sentiments may seem "naive." But it was just such a pro-Western "naivete" that sent thousands of Muscovites into the streets to defend fragile Russian democracy last August after Yeltsin climbed atop a tank to face down a coup...
...white-supremacist causes. In 1979 he joined Duke's Klan (one of many different Klan organizations), and soon moved up the ranks. Shortly after Duke stepped down as Imperial Wizard in 1980 to found the National Association for the Advancement of White People, Robb and another lieutenant staged a coup to topple Duke's successor, Don Black, then in prison for trying to engineer the takeover of a Caribbean island. In 1989 Robb became Grand Wizard...
...attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January, he orchestrated a Klan rally on Martin Luther King Day that turned violent when anti-Klan protesters threw bottles, overturned a police car and battled police. The incident allowed Slater to score a publicity coup on CBS'S 48 Hours...