Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violent Protests. Pacheco, 48, inherited this situation when he was elevated to his post from the vice-presidency by the sudden death of President Oscar Gestido. A former newspaper editor who relaxes by dropping in on his favorite gym to box, Pacheco opened his campaign for national discipline in a gloves-off spirit. He fired six members of his own Colorado Par ty from their ministerial jobs. Since then, he has replaced all but one man in the twelve-member Cabinet with "good technicians." To halt inflation, which had boosted prices 200% in 18 months and forced five devaluations...
Wealthy Paupers. The house does have a few defenders. One of Pleuthner's neighbors, Architect Oscar de Bogdan, recalls that when the house was built in 1922, "it was a terrific showplace around here-one of the most authentic replicas of a 16th century English country manor." Says Dr. Margaret Archer, another neighbor: "Even now, the place looks like a collage. It has a crazy charm." Then she adds wistfully, "Everything else looks the same around here...
...screen, the roster of professionals is equally impressive. Hollywood Cameraman George Folsey, who has been nominated for an Oscar 13 times, now trains his lens on Miller High Life beer and Sanka coffee. Composer Mitch Leigh, who wrote the music for Man of La Mancha, is a top jingle writer for commercials. Dress Designer Bill Blass does the wardrobe for the models who are seen nuzzling up to the Princess telephone...
...want any dark innuendoes." Chirps the chauffeur: "Anybody call me?" Even such all-black musicals as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky patronized as they provided employment. "It's been a long journey to this moment," said Sidney Poitier when he received his Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963. But his was only the last lap. The first million miles were traveled by Eddie Anderson, Stepin' Fetchit, Willie Best, Butterfly McQueen and other gifted actors whose long ride in the back of the bus can be seen again every week on television...
...neighborhood screens. Staircase, a play about two aging male lovers has been bought by 20th Century-Fox; The Killing of Sister George, a tragicomedy concerning a tweedy lesbian and her baby-doll companion, is now being filmed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) in London. Oscar Winner Rod Steiger's next big film, The Sergeant, is about a homosexual G.I. who re-enlists to get closer to the boys. CBS Films this month announced that it has bought the rights to The Boys in the Band, an off-Broadway hit in which all the characters are homosexuals. In March...