Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World technique is not confined to acting in The Lark. Jo Miclziner's light-settings provide a pervarding modernistic tone. Although the effects are flashy, they are never offensive. In lieu of sets, Mr. Mielziner may have as many as three clashing colors splashed on stage at one time, but he never distracts attention from the players. Leonard Bernstein's incidental choral music, of which much is modal, seems equally impressive...
...eminently self-satisfied gentleman and knight-elect hires a woman to type up replies to congratulatory letters. She turns out to be his former wife. Richard Smithies plays the pompous Sir Harry, in a loud and brusque manner quite suitable to the part. His secretary Kate is acted by Jo Linch in a style appropriately different from Sir Harry's. She is not animated, but placidly content--almost too serious; yet her benign laughter at him makes her restraint very convincing...
...Under Brazil's rules permitting ticket-splitting, hundreds of thousands of voters who decided for Candidate Barros also voted for Candidate Tavora's running mate, an able jurist named Milton Campos. At week's end Campos was so close behind Kubitschek's running mate, leftish João ("Jango") Goulart, that the contest was still in doubt...
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...parties with more funds to spend for ballots and more effective methods of distributing them. Last week, in the record time of 15 minutes, the Senate unanimously passed a bill requiring the use of uniform ballots listing all candidates. Three minutes after the measure landed on his desk, President João Café Filho signed it into law. Reason for the haste: military leaders had demanded ballot reform, and the politicos wanted to avoid giving them any excuse to intervene in the presidential election scheduled...