Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN...
...meandering subtitle -- that she almost lost her mind while shooting on location in 1951 in what was then the Belgian Congo. But of course she did not. Found a good, perhaps unsuspected, part of it, actually. As she says, among all her movies and plays, The African Queen is the one that remains vividly in memory. For good reason. Tough shoot -- they don't come any tougher. Heat. Bugs. Snakes. Minimum crew, equipment. Maximum heightening of the senses deep in exotic country. Sensitive descriptions of people, landscape. Plus. Bogart a total pro -- on time, lines letter-perfect, hating his hairpiece...
...their rare nights out in public, Cosby treats his wife with the adoration of a nerdy schoolboy who cannot believe he landed the prom queen. He admits, however, that their life together was not always the stuff of warm situation comedy. About eight years ago, he says, "if somebody had made me choose between my career and my family, I probably would have let the family...
Dole put her husband's career ahead of her own once before, when she resigned as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to help his ill-fated 1980 presidential campaign. Until then the former Duke University student- council president and campus Queen of the May from Salisbury, N.C., had concentrated single-mindedly on her work. She started in politics as a "greeter" on Lyndon Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential whistle-stop tour, where she became enamored of Washington. She eventually started working there, quickly racking up high-ranking posts in Administrations of both parties. Her soft, unthreatening style...
...most lavish extravaganza ever held by a single computer manufacturer, and not even all the hotels in the Hub could accommodate the 50,000 executives, financial analysts and journalists from 25 countries who are expected to attend the $25 million, eleven-day affair. To house the overflow crowd, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Star/Ship Oceanic luxury liners were docked alongside the spacious World Trade Center on Boston Harbor, where DEC put up a raft of electronic exhibits and unveiled a new line of machines in the midsize or "minicomputer" class...