Word: merlis
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...realizes, as she does not, that the Christian epoch will have no room for a necromancer - or an ironic realist. Mer lin's time has come again in the post-Christian 20th century; it is fitting, then, that Williamson expresses both the juicy effluence of hoary ham acting and the quizzical underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie...
...reluctant inter national patrons have long sought a more acceptable alternative to what is at best the lesser of two evils in Cambodia. Chi na has quietly prodded the Khmer Rouge to link up with anti-Communist resistance forces led by Son Sann, a 70-year-old for mer Prime Minister. Simultaneously, in a stunning reversal, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 58, who has lived in exile in China and North Korea since he was initially overthrown in 1970, agreed to make peace with the Khmer Rouge and lead a united front against the Vietnamese...
...Sinatra's Inauguration eve gala at the Capital Centre in Maryland. Some 19,000 have been invited to pay from $50 to $10,000 (for a ten-seat box) to see OF Blue Eyes put on a show that will include Johnny Carson, Debby Boone, Donny Osmond, Ethel Mer man, Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston...
...overwhelmingly Catholic Puerto Rico, such a bizarre ceremony, with its overtones of voodoo, seemed somewhat out of place. In fact, its significance was as much political as religious. In a for mer pantyhose factory nearby, dozens of party representatives were conducting a painstaking ballot-by-ballot recount of all 1.6 million votes cast in the island's gubernatorial election. The race between Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and his main challenger, Rafael Hernández Colón, had been so close that some of the Governor's more zealous supporters concluded that a ceremonial appeal for divine...
...splashed some bubbly on target. The truckers all cheered, and one asked if she had a CB handle. "Not really," chirped the interstate pinup. "What do you think of 'Booby Trap'?" "I started out studying music, but very quickly went downhill and into politics," laments for mer British Prime Minister Edward Heath...