Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BORN. To Robyn Gibson, 27, and Mel Gibson, 28, American-born Australian hunky-dory actor (The Year of Living Dangerously, The Bounty): their fourth child, third son; in Sydney...
...glaring controversy was the javelin competition, which began a little after 5 p.m., when the spear throwers complained that a fellow could lose his Olympics in the sun. Duncan Atwood noted, "It was sort of like having a flash go off in your face just as you released." Mel Durslag, a Los Angeles historian for the Herald Examiner, recalled that similar worries were heard in 1958 when the Dodgers wanted to put home plate in the Coliseum's east end. A man from nearby Arcadia proposed floating a giant balloon over the west rim, thereby shading the batter...
...dress code for her senior staff that includes neckties for men and dresses or skirts for women; the police and fire chiefs must be in full uniform when they come to her office. The mayor asks a lot of her staff in other ways. Recalls former Press Secretary Mel Wax: "If a story the least bit critical of her appeared in the newspaper, she'd say, 'You should have done this, or you should have done that.' There's a lot of the schoolteacher about her. She's difficult. She's demanding. It drives...
...exist. But he suffers from limited resources, and must deal with one of the poorest major cities in the country. Whites are not well off either, and Flynn has wirely couched his rhetoric in communal rather than divisive terms. He must step up efforts to bring black leaders like Mel King and City Councilor Bruce C. Bolling into the spotlight. King, who won about 20 percent of the white vote in an inspired but unsuccessful bid for mayor, will continue to be a force for change in the city, and Flynn should again encourage him to join...
...movie. Snippets of the plot are woven in between scenes of island life or storm scenes at sea, and as a result the story plays second-fiddle to the settings. We never truly get to know the characters, who seem tremendously inactive but yet paradoxically provoke tremendous dramatic actions. Mel Gibson's Fletcher Christian comes across as a rather weak-willed character, who leads the mutiny because he wants to return to his Tahitian princess. He is given little opportunity to do anything except stand around looking gorgeous; we are never given a chance to see what motivates his actions...