Word: leos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones had called his followers together after a two-day visit by California Congressman Leo Ryan. The Temple leader was outraged by the fact that a score of the cultists had asked Ryan to help them escape the colony. Ryan's party and the defectors had left Jonestown to fly home from a nearby airstrip. Jones knew of a plot by his group to shoot the pilot of one of the visitors' two planes. He was not aware, at first, that Ryan and four others in the party had already been ambushed and slain at the airfield...
After a much-needed day of pool-side R&R following Sawgrass, Harvard and Flagler are scheduled to tee it up with Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), Saint Leo's, and fellow northerner MIT in the FIT Invitational Tournament. Both FIT and Flagler holed out well ahead of the Crimson in this one last year, but Harvard saved face by burying MIT by 25 shots...
...secret were the negotiations between Iacocca and K & E Chief Leo Kelmenson that Ford executives got the news less than an hour before the public did. K&E hand-delivered a letter resigning the $75 million account, which was roughly like kicking Ford out the door at 55 m.p.h. Meanwhile, Iacocca telephoned Chrysler's previous ad agencies-Young & Rubicam, BBDO and Ross Roy-to tell their bosses that they...
...temperamentally similar. One is macho aggressive, one is flailingly dumb, and one is provokingly prissy. McLure writes with his fist, and his characters punch out at adamant walls. Pvt. Wars takes place in a mental ward for brain-bruised war veterans. In a series of blackout scenes, Richard Bowne, Leo Burmester and Daniel Ziskie place banderillas of rage, revenge and practical jokery in each other's heads, but their heads are the arena from which they will never escape. In Lone Star, a Viet Nam veteran named Roy (Patrick Tovatt) longs to escape from a changed Texas and preserve...
...fare much better. Herbert Edelman, no stranger to Simon's work--he appeared most recently as Walter Matthau's brother in the movie California Suite--handles Leo's comic scenes with expertise, though he tends to rush through his serious speeches. Only Jerry Orbach is completely and consistently excellent, especially in his physical gestures. At one point, he strokes his dead wife's picture as tenderly as if he were touching the woman herself--then jerks his hand away to hide the private gesture from his brother. Whether indulging in outrageous facial clowning, or making his voice crack with pain...