Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some sense of the excitement it must have been to work closely with Fiedler over the years, and feel the star-watcher's thrill at the Pops parade of brilliant guest performers; those who suffered through piano lessons and drillwork can catch the allusion and laugh at jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's assertion that his keyboard prowess can' from playing "lots and lots of Czerny when I was a kid." But what excitement and color come through does so painfully, in spite of Dickson's uncertain, cliche-ridden style and not because...
Even though the historic Old Bailey has echoed in the past to the oaths of rogues like Captain James Kidd, the pirate, and the epigrams of Oscar Wilde, few words could have commanded as much attention as Sutcliffe's responses last week to a simple question asked 20 times: "How say you, Peter Sutcliffe, are you guilty or not guilty...
...mode of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears-this year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film-is a kind of patient realism. The style is not flashy, but it is satisfying because it makes clear just what the protagonist, Katerina (Vera Alentova), has suffered and sacrificed in order to earn her nice car and nice apartment and the right to those middle-aged tears that Moscow so distrusts...
...first jam session, and the rest of the cast is fully up to the demands of the script. Kudos to Richard Moll as an Abominable Snowman who shambles around like Groucho Marx in sopping-wet fake fur, and to an animated Tyrannosaurus rex who deserves next ear's Oscar for Best Supporting Thing, ^ow how about a remake of Bedtime for Bonzo? -By Richard Corliss...
...Salvador Legal Aid Commission--a non-partisan organization established with the support of San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero (assassinated last year for his criticisms of the government)--states that the most recent "cleanup" offensive occured last month. According to their reports, 798 persons were killed in El Salvador between March 7 and March 13, 681 of whom were peasants attacked by government planes and helicopters in Chalatenango and Morazon. Since the offensive began, the government has periodically closed off the area to church groups and the press...