Word: max
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There are several reasons for Matthew Broderick to celebrate 1983. He won praise for his first movie, Neil Simon's Max Dugan Returns. He received absolute raves, as well as a Tony nomination, for playing the adolescent Simon in the dramatist's autobiographical hit, Brighton Beach Memoirs. "To Matthew," says a note from Simon on the actor's dressing-room wall. "After watching me on the stage, I never knew I was so cute and so talented." Critics are already applauding his portrayal of the computer genius who nearly starts World War III in War-Games, which...
Other people, including Film Director Herb Ross, saw his star quality in Torch Song. Ross put him in Max Dugan Returns; the same day Broderick read for Brighton Beach Memoirs as well. Suddenly the young actor, who had been desperate for any work, was trying to find time for everything...
...that the diaries were "obvious fakes." Beside him, Federal Archives President Hans Booms, who characterized the forgeries as "grotesque" and "superficial," contended that much of the contents had been plagiarized from a book, Hitler's Speeches and Proclamations 1932-45, written in 1962 by a former Nazi Federal Archivist, Max Domarus. Booms dated the production of the forgeries as about...
...different genres of music, classical and popular. That Rockwell would even attempt such a synthesis speaks much about the music being produced today. As Rockwell writes, the barriers between the different worlds of music are breaking down, as is the media through which music reaches the public. Artists like Max Neuhaus--whose most well-known "work" is a sonorous organ sound which emerges from a Times Square grating--has redefined music, taking it out of the concert halls and making it a truly "popular" art form...
Government Spokesman Max Gallo: "France has shown that she has no intention of being a soft underbelly." Said a Western Ambassador in Paris: "I think François Mitterrand is just fed up with the brazen Soviet espionage in France." Since he came to power 23 months ago, the Socialist President has demonstrated that the presence of four Communist ministers in his government does not deter him from pursuing a tougher policy against the Soviets than his predecessors...