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...ranging interests: he plays the guitar, loves to ride horses, and his bedroom is decorated with his own paintings. He has a reputation as an early rising hard worker?he avoids siestas and can be curt with aides who lack his sense of punctuality. Last week he caused mild pandemonium at the U.N. by arriving 14 minutes early for a meeting with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. He is fond of attractive women but is close to his family: Wife Carmen Romano, an accomplished pianist, Daughters Paulina, 20, and Carmen, 23, and Son Jose...
With the aid of an outstanding cast, director Daniel Sherman and producer Rick Livingston have rendered admirably Shaw's light-hearted pandemonium and his apocalyptic vision of a new European class consciousness. Although the characters in Heartbreak House loosely represent symbolic roles in English society, they consistently refuse to be stereotyped. As the play progresses, each character develops, gradually revealing more and more depth. In the end, Shaw's portraits remain ambiguous and a challenge to decipher, leaving nuances of their portrayal up to the discretion of the director and actors...
...reporters and 14 senior Chinese army officers, a Vietnamese staff sergeant defiantly denounced "the reactionary Peking clique" and accused China of using "gas" against Vietnamese hiding in caves during the war. "What kind of gas?" asked a reporter. "Poison gas," came the angry and loud reply. At this point pandemonium broke out. A Chinese officer jumped up and bellowed something at the interpreter, who in turn shouted at the Vietnamese sergeant. The reporters were quickly ushered out of the room...
...prophet, Herbert W. Armstrong, 86, of not only lavish spending but "liquidating the properties of the church on a massive scale." The plaintiffs charge that in the past six months alone 50 pieces of church property, worth millions, have been sold. The attorney general's move touched off pandemonium; at one point, staffers at Pasadena headquarters tried to lock out state agents arriving to seize control, then were caught trying to spirit out church records...
...camera's attention soon moves to a close-up of ecstatic neophytes screaming to their follow trainees that "I am here because I want to change." This presumed act of self-confession is greeted by a babel of resonating applause and general whooping reminiscent of the narcotics-induced pandemonium of a rock concert. But these people do not get off on junk or ganja, they get off on quaintly named exercises like psychocalisthenics, karma processing and catharsis for the Acceptance of Change. As we are assured by our guide on this sojurn into Aricaland, "The same general principles operating...