Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decree, Economics Minister Michael Stewart ordered a large electrical-appliance maker not to pay 200 employees a 5% wage increase that had been negotiated before the freeze went into effect. In the other, he ordered London newspaper publishers to cease paying a two shilling (28?) per-week cost-of-living bonus to 25,000 printers and production workers. Since installments of the bonus had already been paid, deductions from future paychecks would be necessary in order to keep the wage standstill completely intact. The newspaper union was outraged. Said a spokesman: "The government sows the wind and will reap...
...hospital with a slipped disc. The thing is, he was. With Gianni bedridden, Anne, 23, now six months pregnant, dressed up in a silver and white minitent and trooped off to the benefit premiere of Hawaii, organized by her mother. Anne's escort: TV Producer Michael Santangelo, a friend of Gianni's who looks enough like him to fool any photographer...
...Alchemist, by Ben Jonson. It is ironic for the Lincoln Center Theater to be doing this play, since the troupe specializes in turning dramatic gold into lead. Some new actors are present, notably Michael O'Sullivan, a mutilatingly funny man. They help to steal the show from Jonson, but pickpocketing a classic is the meanest form of tribute. Body English is slammed at the playgoer, but he never hears the king...
This eccentric English comedy, all tea-cozy quirks and idiosyncrasy like a thousand others, boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa. Tackling a made-to-measure role, Actress Redgrave shows that she has inherited a fair share of the family talent along with the lack-looks of a backstairs maid. As Georgy she is dumpy, vaguely prognathous, warm and plain as a suet pudding. Her figure is so nondescript that she paws through heaps of female finery with the defeatist air of a girl attempting...
...RUSSIAN INTERPRETER by Michael Frayn. 222 pages. Viking...