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Thus did the well-oiled Marcos machine launch the election campaign of its Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (K.B.L.) Party. But the elections to be held on May 14 seem unlikely to be conducted in the hollow style to which the island republic is accustomed: for the first time since Marcos declared martial law in 1972, the Philippines has a free, frank opposition to the government. The shocking, still unresolved assassination of exiled Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino last August has succeeded in reawakening a long-silent populace and galvanizing the opposition. Now the anti-Marcos forces have high hopes of increasing...
...team was not immediately renamed, but the Indianapolis Colts sounds as hollow and sad as the city of Baltimore must feel. Johnny Unitas. Gino Marchetti. Lenny Moore. Jim Parker. Raymond Berry. Art Donovan. Alan Ameche. Bill Pellington. Jim Mutscheller. "Big Daddy" Lipscomb. Bert Rechichar. Buddy Young. The "sudden death" game of 1958. "Let's go, you Baltimore Colts . . ." No room for all of that in a moving...
...fine," Hornaday says, "but his eyes are dead." Even the judgments that benefit auditioners could prove painful if spoken within their earshot. Says Feuer: "We need someone who looks foolish to play Greg." His colleagues nod, and one young man is in. But the triumph is temporary and perhaps hollow. At this stage, the auditioners are moving on to "call-backs," the first step in a process that will, the producers admit, stretch up to the start of production in September. Open calls are being held in Los Angeles. Individual auditions will be granted to Broadway and Hollywood actors, including...
...dialogues and internal narrative fall flat for most of the book. It just doesn't ring true and is full of hollow platitudes and philosophical nonsense. Says one general to Converse: "Voltaire said it best in his Discours sur I' homme. Essentially he wrote that man attained his highest freedom only when he understood the parameters of his behavior." But not to be outdone in the philosophical merry-go-round, another general tells Converse: "Goethe said it perhaps better when he insisted that the romance of politics is best used to numb and quell the fears of the uninformed...
...outstanding or outlandish fashions usually end up wearing their owners. The majority of showy dressers look more like inhabitors than creators of style, because they channel all their efforts at self-improvement into surface area: Fashion becomes a questionable vehicle for self-expression when it is wrapped around a hollow tube...