Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His meek appearance masked the fact that Larry Wu-Tai Chin was a master of deception. For nearly 30 years, Chin, 63, a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Peking, lived a double life. While working as a highly valued translator and analyst for the CIA, he also...
Reddin is bringing off a rare double: while his words resound in Rum and Coke, he is onstage 20 blocks away in a manic revival of the 1930s farce Room Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who...
Hussein made the announcement in an emotional 3 1/2-hour speech over Jordanian television, addressed to 1.3 million Palestinians in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as to his own 2.8 million subjects. The King thus broke off a year-old partnership with Arafat in which the...
Soares began the final round of the campaign trailing by 21 points. Faced with almost certain defeat, the fragmented left mobilized behind the Socialist candidate. Communist Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal reluctantly endorsed Soares as "the lesser of two evils." A hard-liner, Cunhal instructed rank-and-file party members "to...
Or maybe not. This is an Ealing comedy for the '80s, omitting the cuddli- ness, the sense of community and the conscious charm of those old movies. But not their straight-faced delight in human eccentricity, their Englishness, if you will.