Word: nunn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would be sunk by this extra weight. Neither the new code nor the N.R.A. bill ever made it to a Senate vote. Two other N.R.A. supporters, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas and Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, were annoyed by the lobby's relentless but ultimately unsuccessful effort to block the confirmation last fall of former Illinois Congressman Abner Mikva, a strong gun-control advocate, as a federal judge...
Since 1946 there has been a string of British spies: Alan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo for atomic secrets, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Blunt. All seemed too impeccably Establishment to be spies, and so did Hollis...
...would put Ian up with Olivier and Gielgud in his intelligence and skill," says the National Theater's Peter Hall, who directed Amadeus. "He's an original," says Trevor Nunn of the Royal Shakespeare Company. "He has a strong and complex intelligence, and he can't really be compared with anybody." Although he has the stature and the command of theatrical grandeur associated with the Olivier generation, McKellen also has something more contemporary, more recognizably his own. It is a sort of granite center, a moral core that harks back to his Cambridge teacher, the great critic...
...that earned him quick notice and a few severe warnings. One reviewer called him "a show-off," and McKellen took the criticism to heart. He started his own troupe, the Actors' Company, in part to counter this "tendency to act in an overly individual way." Later he accepted Nunn's repeated invitations to join the R.S.C., where he further modulated his gifts and moderated his flamboyance. Says Nunn: "I think Ian matured, and his presence matured the R.S.C." That double maturity led actor and director to a 1977 London production of Macbeth, in which McKellen seemed...
...nation. Furthermore, only the Selective Service System is confident that registration would help in mobilization. As Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) has pointed out, a real crisis requires efficient, well trained soldiers, not lists of 18-year-olds. Even some supporters of draft registration, such as Sen. Sam Nunn (DGa.), acknowledge that cutting waste in the defense budget and improving conditions for professional soldiers are more important than the sign-up program...