Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most especially Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, are all men who have greatness thrust upon them. Olivier would have made Col. Nicholson a hero; Guinness kept him a man. It is fitting, somehow, that after a great and varied career--one which won him an Oscar and knighthood--most movie-goers remember him only as Obi-wan-Kenobi...
Complaining about the Academy Awards has become a springtime tradition, like taking down the storm windows and groaning over income tax forms. But this year Hollywood disappointed: the Oscar ceremonies were unpredictable and, to almost universal astonishment, entertaining. There were genuine surprises, moments of old-fashioned sentiment and flashes of humor...
...have a launched a search around Athens and other cities and also put out a signal to trace this person through Interpol," one police source said. Earlier yesterday in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro said, "It is certain that a suspect person, who is on file as a terrorist, got on in Cairo and got off in Athens, occupying in the airplane the exact seat where the explosion occurred...
...elderly Irish rake, the Earl of Drogheda, returned to his native land after 30 years abroad, with a shattered constitution. He found that his youthful portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed, corrupt and wrinkled than he had become. One might say it is to Joshua Reynolds, rather than Oscar Wilde, that / the portrait of Dorian Gray owes its existence...
...border agreement follows the election last month of Costa Rican President-elect Oscar Arias Sanchez. Shortly after his victory, the feuding neighbors resumed relations and exchanged new ambassadors. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra was quick to portray the accord as evidence of his country's desire for peace in the region. The Reagan Administration, which last week asked Congress for an additional $100 million in aid for the contras, was unimpressed. Said a State Department spokesman: "It's nice they're having these bilateral accords, but they can't take the place of a regional, verifiable settlement...