Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter is expected to follow the tradition of staying away from the convention hall until he becomes the nominee Wednesday night. His acceptance speech the following evening will elaborate on his now familiar vision of a government "as good, as compassionate, as full of love as the American people." The first drafts are being fashioned by Speechwriter Patrick Anderson, a former newsman and author of the recent, faintly scandalous The President's Mistress...
Died. Sir Stanley Baker, 48, Welsh-born character actor who won fame as a cinema villain; of heart and lung disease; in Málaga, Spain. Baker was ready to follow his father into the coal mines when a movie producer spied him in a school play and offered him a screen test. Signed to his first big film contract in 1956, Baker played in such hit action movies as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) and Innocent Bystanders...
...driver pulled off where three cars were parked on the side of the road, just before a curve that cut into the cliff above. "Follow the path," he said. He handed me a baggie full of his homegrown. "Straight and narrow." (People are always screaming about the dangers of hitchhiking. Why, back in seventh grade they even showed us a Highway Patrol film about murdered hitchers. The truth is that anybody who'd pick up travelers as scruffy as most hitchhikers are has got to have an ungodly quotient of Good Samaritanism--especially in North Carolina, where the only other...
...Devil's Disciple revolves around the discovery of true identity by Dudgeon and his counterpart, Reverend Anthony Anderson, a discovery which takes place against the background of colonial rebellion against the British. Notorious for his blasphemous gusto for life, Dudgeon in the course of the play proves willing to follow his own peculiar religion to the death--even when that death is theoretically another man's. When the British mistake him for the minister, whom they plan to hang as an example to town rebels, Dudgeon declines to correct their mistake. Meanwhile, Anderson, realizing his own ministerial garb cloaks...
...superior off-Broadway revival five years later ran for more than 500 performances (at this time a French film version, Les Sorcieres de Salem, was also in release, with a screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre; and Robert Ward's fine Pulitzer-Prize-winning opera based on the play would follow...