Word: lama
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...witch who seduces men with her blend of whorishness and innocence in the Wedekind plays, has become the eponym for an adaptation by Michael Feingold. Feingold, and the company in rehearsal, have updated the play by translating it to a contemporary landscape. So we get references to the Dalai Lama, Lulu moves on roller skates, Schwartz the painter becomes Carbone the fashion photographer, Rodrigo the acrobat becomes Juan dos Tres the welterweight champ--all of which is fine and good...
...champion of the world, or should have been. How abhorred in our imagination it is! None of the dogs are leashed anymore. It's almost certain that Ronald Reagan is going to be president. And it's going to be a very hard winter, very hard indeed. Ali, Ali, lama sabachthani...
Yoda, a 26-in.-tall Muppet operated by Frank Oz, the man in charge of Miss Piggy, is one of Lucas' great fantastics. Part elf and part wizard, he is Dagobah's answer to the High Lama of Shangrila. He has been training Jedi Knights for 800 years. At first he hardly wants to talk to Luke. "No good," he says to Ben Kenobi, who has hovered into view once again. "I cannot instruct him. The boy has no patience. Much anger in him, like his father. All his life has he looked away-to the horizon...
January 10: Vietnam mounts offensive against remaining Khmer Rouge guerillas, overrun Thailand, China re-invades Vietnam. Dalai Lama urges India to sieze opportunity to free Tibet by invading China. Sen. Edward Kennedy releases a statement condemning China and Vietnam, but noting that Pol Pot's government had murdered millions of Cambodians prior to Vietnamese intervention. Opinion polls next day reveal that Kennedy slips a further ten per cent against President Carter...
...Ronald Reagan. Reagan, in the excitement of the moment, suffers a fatal heart attack. Unwilling to deliberate further, and ignoring Constitutional provisions barring his election to a third term, the exhausted Convention selects Richard Nixon as its standard bearer. Not to be outdone by Carter, Nixon chooses the Dalai Lama as his running mate, saying that he hopes having an incarnate Buddha on the ticket will "allow the Republican Party to escape the wheel of death and rebirth...