Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out 2 million strong for the traditional buzzard of ticker tape in New York City's "confetti canyon," the milelong hero's avenue to City Hall from the Battery where fireboats squirted red, white and blue sprays. "We really fought for America," said Pistol Shooter Ruby Fox, and Brooklyn Boxer Mark Breland added, "My town has really turned out the troops." These days, ticker tape is scarce in Lower Manhattan, though a bit of the stuff was donated by Wall Street and some was imported from Connecticut. Mostly, the propmen in the upper windows threw down computer...
...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 and Oliver Twist. "Alec...
...G.O.P. asked for volunteers for nonpaying convention tasks, 20,000 Dallasites stepped forward. The city's share of the convention will be entirely funded by private donations, totaling $3.9 million. "San Francisco spent 8 million bucks to put on that convention," huffed Dallas Welcoming Committee Chairman David Fox. "Here it's going to be put on by private citizens' money...
...show 'em everything," promises Welcoming Committee Chairman Fox. To boot, says Mayor Taylor, the thing that will win strangers over to Dallas is its people. "You don't find people anywhere in the world better than those we have in Dallas...
...Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and the drunken Norman Maine in A Star Is Born (1954). As his matinee-idol features aged, his performances became comically macabre: his Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962) is a tour de force of nympholeptic longing. In his last decade, Mason lived...