Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stephanopoulos gave a brief summary of Greek history, from its beginnings as the world's first democracy to its current status as a smaller world power...
Macedonia has historically been a Greek region but is currently part of Bulgaria--a fact which in the past caused considerable tension between Greece and Bulgaria...
However, Stephanopoulos assured his audience that "Greek relations with Bulgaria are smooth...
This messy business is never fully explained, but the commotion gives author Zencey room for a fond sketch portrait of a man he clearly admires. Adams bustles about crime scenes pretending to courage he doesn't really feel, an animated footnote annotating in Greek and Latin. He marvels at fingerprinting, then just coming into use in Paris, and at "instantaneous" communication by pneumatic tubes. For a time he suspects that one of the villains is his friend John Hay, later to be a U.S. Secretary of State. A gendarme confronts him at an awkward moment: "Oh, dear, Monsieur Adams. This...
...impressive names in the movie, with the exception of Allen himself, have tiny cameo roles as various Greek actors or Chorus members. Here the prime question comes into play: does one really want to spend $7.50 to hear Olympia Dukakis crack one joke...