Word: lions
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Soyinka, author of "Kongi's Harvest" and "The Lion and the Jewel," was detained by the Nigerian government during the seventies for his political activities. He spoke as a guest of the annual Theodore Spencer memorial lecture series, which has, in the past, invited T.S. Eliot and Jean Renoir...
Generally, and perhaps expectably, the reviews were bad. "A high-risk gamble with the future of America" was AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland's verdict. Said he: "Workers and the poor take the lion's share of the risk. The only sure winners are the wealthy, whether they are individuals or corporations." Echoed Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees: "What we are seeing is the beginning of an Administration that will do two things-reward the rich and screw the poor." William Winpisinger, liberal head of the machinists union, advocated giving...
...Rouge and its shadow government, called Democratic Kampuchea in the United Nations. The U.S. and other Western countries have gone along, but with extreme distaste. The reason: Democratic Kampuchea is the outgrowth of Pol Pot's four-year reign of terror, in which as many as 3 mil lion Cambodians are believed to have been murdered or starved to death before the Vietnamese moved in to stop the slaughter...
...teams without tournaments for the week will also be playing for some big stakes. The men's hockey team heads for Princeton on Friday to meet the Tigers in a crucial ECAC contest, then must rush on up to the hockey lion's den called Cornell for a Saturday night contest. That's a road trip...
...Actor Rod Steiger, 55, going from the Hasidic rabbi in The Chosen to Benito Mussolini in Lion of the Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup...