Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates, many of them obviously uncomfortable in the ill-fitting Western suits that they rented for the occasion, met in the grandstand of the Royal Turf Club. They elected 299 of their number to form a new National Assembly, which will approve a new constitution and oversee new national elections. The Assembly's members represent the most democratic political cross section in the country's history. Military and police officers have only about one-tenth of the seats, compared with two-thirds in the old Assembly. Now civil servants, academics, journalists and farmers sit side by side...
...readjust the emphasis. Hickey does not stand apart, he becomes just another victim. The weight of the play falls on Robert Ryan, whose portrayal of Larry Slade is magnificent. Slade, the rummy poet anarchist, the man who likes to pretend he watches life with cynical dispassion from the grandstand, who claims to invite and welcome death, is a role full of traps. It is hard to separate Slade's sodden grandiloquence ("Go, for the love of Christ, you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake!") from Eugene O'Neill's own penchant for overstuffing his dialogue. Ryan...
...saying of the Vice President: "We've got the evidence. We've got it cold." An infuriated Agnew described the comment as "scandalous." Later in the day Richardson announced that he was canceling a speaking engagement in Texas because "of the most pressing of national business." Snapped Agnew: "A grandstand play...
...They slowed down the goddam rabbit. That guy up there (he pointed to some invisible place high atop the grandstand) slowed it down. This was my big one for the night, and he had to slow down the damn rabbit...
...girl friends and critics. Learn to self-analyze," the redheaded diva told the 120 or so seniors. Beverly Sills picked up an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory of Music and gave the graduating class some off-the-cuff advice. "Don't be the critic in the grandstand, be the bullfighter in the arena. Say 'yes' to life." She also talked about her sudden elevation to stardom at 37, seven years ago. "I'd worked for 30 years and, if that was overnight success, that was the longest night of my life...