Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seek changes in the distribution of power within Lebanon. Under the existing political system, Lebanon's 40% Christian minority dominates both the military and the government. Karami said that his six-man Cabinet would be expanded to make it more representative of the country's varied ethnic makeup. No other specific reforms were promised, but the Premier did say that the constitution would be modified to redistribute the "national wealth among citizens" and that political changes would be introduced to "ensure the necessary adaptation with the requirements of a modern society." Leaders from the vast Palestinian refugee camps...
ALSO FINE is Margaret Downey as Adele Farnum, Shrike's target. Aided by apt makeup and costuming, she fits comfortably into the '30s atmosphere, capturing well the archness of the classic tease. Miss Lonelyhearts' newsroom colleagues also do a more than adequate job. Derek Pajaczkowski as Ned Gates, "The failure incarnate," swings adroitly between hope and bitterness, and Brian Foley as "Flash" Goldsmith excels at wry faces. Less convincing is Brooke Davida Waxburg's Mrs. Shrike, more fluttery than seductive, while Holly Blatman as Betty--"the typical American girl, well-scrubbed and soft as steel"--labors courageously with the worst...
Walter Matthau, decked out in some excellent old-duffer makeup by Dick Smith (of The Godfather), is at some pains to be cute while he is at his most irascible. His portrait of Willy is too selfconscious, too deliberately insinuating. But George Burns, rasping and lively-eyed, makes a fine Al. Burns, 79, has always been the foremost purveyor of the sideways insult that comes in low and inside before it hits the mark. He has added just for the occasion a diabolical ingenuousness, which can raise hackles and laughter in equal, generous measure...
...left to the momentum of these issues alone, large-scale voter apathy would perhaps be understandable if not justified. Thus the candidates, both incumbents and challengers, both "progressives" and "Independents," have been forced to search for other issues and to demonstrate the need for a change in the current makeup of the committee. Their task has been rendered difficult by the fact that under the present committee's leadership, things have begun to go well in the Cambridge school system...
...that's only a part of the order. In all, Nigeria somehow managed to contract for 21 million tons of cement, about ten times the total amount that the lagoon port could handle in a year even without other cargo to unload. Because of the chemical makeup of the cement, much of it may not be usable for building after six months. Last week Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, who ousted Gowon in a coup last July, ordered an official inquiry to see whether the cement purchase was made to "sabotage the economy through a deliberate embarrassment of riches...