Word: kinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black leaders were pleased by McHenry's appointment. Said Coretta King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr.: "I feel he will be a tremendous asset to our nation. He will continue in the same spirit as Andy in terms of trying to win friends for America." The Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was equally enthusiastic. "There may be a change in style from Andy. McHenry won't be as informal, but there won't be a change in the battle for world peace." While more restrained, Jewish leaders also expressed satisfaction...
...care about little people, not the way Lyndon Johnson did." Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who testified as a character witness for Connally at his milk trial, wrote in her memoirs that she remembers how she was standing on a platform with him when word came of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and the Governor said, "Those who live by the sword die by the sword...
...involved and Libya continues to provide much of the rebels' financing. For its part, Morocco is clearly not willing to give up any of its annexed real estate peaceably. Besides his own irredentist impulse, Hassan also has to reckon with the nationalistic fervor of his subjects-which the King originally whipped up in 1975 with his dramatic "Green March," in which 350,000 Moroccans literally walked into the collapsing Spanish colony...
...guide, would lead as many as 200 people trekking stubbornly across the landscape. He even staged mock Sophoclean dramas in the woods, written by himself. A photo from 1931 shows Adams, in a white sheet, cavorting as "the Spirit of the Itinerary" in a play entitled Exhaustos, featuring King Dehydros and a Chorus of Sunburnt Women...
Though Brook has brought more new ideas to the stage than any other contemporary director, his film-making skills remain primitive; even his adaptations of his own brilliant theater productions (King Lear, Marat/Sade) have been flat. Here he is hobbled by lapses in continuity, fake-looking studio sets and a multinational cast. The scenery, much of it shot in Afghanistan, is breathtaking, but the photography is routine. What is needed is some sort of theatricality-if not the forthright vulgarity of DeMille, then at least the romanticism of David Lean. With its incongruous mix of radical content and stodgy style...