Word: goldberger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...located 41 miles northeast of Nuremberg in the gently rolling Bavarian countryside, is a rumor mill that makes Washington, D.C., look like a Trappist monastery. Long before the curtain went up on Das Rheingold, which opens the cycle, the cafés were humming with musical gossip: Tenor Reiner Goldberg, Solti's original choice to sing the difficult role of Siegfried, had been fired (true). Soprano Hildegard Behrens, the Brünnhilde, had quit (false). The Hall production, with sets by Designer William Dudley, would be the biggest fiasco since ... well, since 1976, when Patrice Chéreau scandalized...
...film is stocked with sprightly gags-from the opening credit sequence, with its Rube Goldberg series of mishaps, to the evil Superman getting a wicked charge out of setting the leaning tower of Pisa aright. Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, Petulia) paces the jokes to his trademarked sprung rhythm and sees that they are deftly executed by his engaging cast. Vaughn may lack the top-dog malevolence needed for an archvillain, but he communicates the fun he had playing the role. O'Toole, whose cheerleader beauty has too often been camouflaged...
Terming the 27-yard field goal that won the game "one of, if not the most, meaningful moments of the year." Senior Class Board President Jeff Goldberg said the stone will be cemented into the north wall of Franklin Field stadium at the 17-yard line, where the play took place...
However, both James Rowe, then assistant attorney general, and Arthur Goldberg, the former Supreme Court justice, credit McCloy as the driving force in the War Department in getting the proposal turned into an executive order. Goldberg says that McCloy opposed the idea at first, but then became one of its strongest supporters...
President Reagan says, "Let me share with you a vision of the future which offers hope." Then he goes on to dazzle us with a Rube Goldberg scheme that would let him have his war and also survive. It is a tragedy that he could not have envisioned a plan for the peaceful sharing of our tiny planet among all peoples. Ben Lane Sollentuna, Sweden...