Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moore might have, but Dame Peggy did, and why not? Actors are more easily bruised by unflattering light than by coiling reptiles. They find pythons rather less menacing than cameras, and a good photographer approaches with care...
...some of their Agatha Christie projects (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun), and jumped at the chance to work with Lean. On the set he was free to wander, plucking shots of the 235 crew members and a cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean's since the 1940s, when he was featured in the director's memorable adaptations of Dickens' Great Expectations...
...chose last week to introduce a lavishly produced new soap, Santa Barbara. The network built a $12 million state-of-the-art studio in Burbank, Calif, especially for the show, and early segments have featured an array of opulent sets alternating with outdoor locales. The cast, headed by Dame Judith Anderson, has been introduced in a series of action-packed plot lines designed to hook viewers. For starters, there is the return to town of Parolee Joe Perkins, accused of murdering a member of Santa Barbara's wealthy Capwell family five years earlier. Says Brian Frons...
...Notre Dame, whose team is the most marketable to a national audience, has been offered $20 million for its schedule, though for now Athletic Director Gene Corrigan favors a group arrangement. In anticipation of the court's decision, the Big Ten and Pacific-10 conferences had already signed separate provisional TV deals. Oklahoma and Nebraska had also put their fall schedules up for sale, but they were disappointed with the results. "A lot of people felt that the open market would be a golden market," said John Swofford, head of the N.C.A.A.'S football television committee...
...heroin bill were spent on developing new drugs and educating doctors on how to use the drugs we al ready have, patients would be a lot better off," insists Dr. Michael Levy, director of palliative care at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. This view is shared by Dame Cicely Saunders, the English founder of the hospice movement, which popularized the use of heroin in Britain to relieve dying patients. The controversy over heroin, she says, is focusing attention away from the main issue, which is "the need to improve the general standard of care." In particular, she says...