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...show was conceived as a singular crossbreed of documentary and star-studded entertainment, politics and theatrical pizazz. The script called for Orson Welles to growl out passages from John Donne between scenes of labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of state to deliver speeches; and a New Jersey native-Frank Sinatra-to sing Ever Homeward, in Polish. According to the ICA, the program aimed to "reflect the widespread international concern for the plight of the people of Poland." ICA Director Charles Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late...
...screaming." He barely graduated from the eighth grade and was fired from every job his father got him until, at 21. he became a copy boy at the New York Daily News. He fell in love. "Silence. The sound of dust settling... I waited. It came-the dull tentative growl of presses. It was slow. It gathered confidence. The hollow sound, like a train approaching a tunnel, hit its stride, and the floor, the walls, the ceiling trembled as though in fear of the news they had spawned." He lasted a year...
...part shepherd, part collie-sat itself on the front porch of Pauline Maerker's house in the small (pop. 10,000), southern Illinois farm community of Murphysboro. When Maerker's daughter, Ruth Ann, 27, tried to walk out of the house, the animal's angry growl drove her back. When her son, Harold, 42, opened the door, the dog leaped at him. Only the screen saved him. Fifteen minutes later, the police came, tranquilized the dog, then took it away for testing. The animal, part of a pack that had been seen roaming the streets for months...
...performance seems a model of restraint next to Williamson's Merlin. The voice sweeps from wail to whisper, from adenoidal giggle to basso preposteroso growl - often in the same sentence. It is a daring display, and an exhilarating one. Merlin is, after all, a man out of time: "Our days are numbered," he declaims to Morgana...
...honor guard ranked the South Lawn, green with spring's first surge. Battle streamers from Lexington to Viet Nam snapped on their staffs in the chill flurries. Trumpets soared and the mellow growl of trombones echoed down the Mall: God Save the Queen. It was a moment of dignity, in a nation that craves...