Word: ernest
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...grizzled 29). Goldie Hawn, a perky 55, could have taken poise lessons from her daughter Kate; while botching a TelePrompter speech she devolved into her "Laugh-In" ditz of aeons past. But Julie Andrews radiated queenly glam at 65. And the alter kockers - well, why shouldn't screenwriter Ernest Lehman, the recipient of a special and not entirely plausible honorary Academy Award, look old at 85? But then the Oscar experience can age a man. As host Steve Martin said, "It is interesting to note that, at the beginning of this evening, Mr. Lehman...
...prissy elitists. The name of an obscure Polish animator is always on the lips, waiting to be played as a cultural trump card. "I'll raise you an Angolan documentary maker..." "I'll see your Indonesian cinematographer - and top it with my surprising taste for the subtext of the 'Ernest' movies...
Aside from the look and the music of "Kong," of course, are the shaping hands of producer-director Merian C. Cooper and his co-director Ernest Schoedsack. Cooper had been among other things a sailor, a newspaperman, and a combat aviator; while in Poland after his escape from a Bolshevik labor camp, he met veteran newsreel cameraman Schoedsack...
...chemicals to induce the frightening, painful seizures. Electricity worked faster, but the pain of uncontrolled convulsions remained. Patients fractured their spine, bit their tongue, broke bones. Consequently, the devils who ran some asylums used electroshock as punishment. In many circles, it retains a frisson of barbarity. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath reinforced the image. "It was a brilliant cure," Hemingway wrote sarcastically in the days after his electroshock and before shooting himself, "but we lost the patient...
Robert McNamara, former defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, participated in a panel with Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to Kennedy, Graham T. Allison, director of the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Ernest May, Warren professor of history--and whose book the Kennedy Tapes formed the basis of the movie "Thirteen Days...