Word: leah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfortunate that director Leah Rosovsky didn't modify the tone of Mendler's performance, because the cast of supporting characters is perfectly competent. Tony Gittelson, as Allan's friend Dick Christie, captures the essence of the New York corporate man attached to his telephone as if it were an umbilical cord. His wife Linda (Lisa Wolfson) is presented with just the right blend of hard ambition and self-doubt. But the core is missing; without a sufficiently interesting Allan to play off of, these peripheral characters remain self-contained and unable to compensate for the show's central failure...
...ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER and LEAH NAPOLIN...
...first official visit by an Israeli Premier to West Germany, Rabin walked past neatly tended mass graves at the site of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hannover, where an estimated 30,000 Jews died during the years of Nazi terror. While his German-born wife Leah, who fled the country as a child, looked on, Rabin recited the Kaddish, the traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead. The Premier also laid a wreath of blue and white carnations -the national colors of Israel-at the foot of a memorial plaque...
...Leah Rabin, wife of Israel's Premier, stood up to address a session of the International Women's Conference in Mexico City (TIME, June 30), the Arabs, Africans and Communists who made up more than half the audience streamed out. To those who remained, Rabin observed philosophically: "I know countries have conflicts and misunderstandings, but not to be willing to sit down and listen to each other is to reject the point and goals of our being here together...
...planners as "the world's largest consciousness-raising group." The consciousness-raisers present included one female Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and about a dozen wives of national leaders, promptly dubbed "wifey-poos" by disdainful feminists. Among them: Jehan Sadat of Egypt, Nusrat Bhutto of Pakistan, Leah Rabin of Israel, and Imelda Marcos of the Philippines...