Word: merlis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bringing together people of reflection and action, the center hopes to encourage better understanding of the is sues facing the Middle East." So said for mer President Jimmy Carter last week as he launched a four-day conference at the new Carter Center of Emory University in Atlanta. The conference featured former President Gerald Ford as cochairman...
...projected an image of strong leadership abroad and developed close personal ties with President Reagan, who will make a three-day visit to Japan this week. But at home, the Liberal Democratic statesman has seemed uncertain about how to handle the scandal sur rounding his longtime political ally, for mer Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. As pressure mounted on Nakasone to dis tance himself from the man who has come to be known as the Shadow Shogun, the troubled Japanese leader slipped away to the temple to contemplate one of the most difficult problems of his political career...
...characters in a bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. The Stockholm stock exchange was still and silent, idled temporarily by a total breakdown in an electronic system for registering trades. Millions of transactions being processed at the time of the crash were suddenly in limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger went bankrupt...
Villefranche-sur-Mer, where the Never Say Never crew was filming an action scene for their thriller about nuclear terrorism. Location work in the movies is always a combination of summer camp and boot camp, but Connery seemed to be enjoying it. He deflected all suggestions of a rivalry between the two pictures, or between himself and Moore, whom he has known for more than 20 years. If there is a difference, Connery says, it is in their approach to character: "I start with the serious and then try to inject as much humor...
...actors floated from opposite sides of the picture as the camera focused on a table between them. Other solutions, like cutting from the right side of a frame to the left within what was originally one shot, were so dislocating that they induced brief spells of mal de mer. The current way to cope, called panning and scanning, is a great deal more sophisticated and rather less noticeable, but the viewer still comes up short...