Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three years and more, the star-director and his ragtag band of actors hopscotched the Mediterranean, shooting a sequence whenever a few Eurodollars turned up. Notes Welles biographer Frank Brady: "A Tuscan stairway and a Moorish battlement are in the film, both appearing as parts of a single room. Roderigo kicks Cassio in Massaga and gets punched back in Orgete, a thousand miles away...
...freedom. The Olympics were the one battleground on which the two enemies could meet and have it out. And the highlights of these Games, for many, have been the Soviet Union's stunning, last-second defeat of the U.S. basketball team in 1972, and the victory of a ragtag collection of American collegians over the mighty Soviet hockey machine...
...miles northeast of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the rest of Italy. This is a craggy, nearly treeless countryside that has seen more than its share of history, good and bad. Maida was plundered frequently in pre-Christian times. The rebel slave Spartacus led his ragtag army through the area during his ill-fated battles with the legions of imperial Rome. The medieval German Emperor Frederick II, surrounded by a retinue that included his harem, passed by en route to the Sixth Crusade. And older men in Maida still recalled the day Garibaldi and his Redshirts rode...
...shows. On CAPITOL CRITTERS, cats really do chase mice -- and the trouble is, it's no parody. The new animated series from Steven Bochco Productions (ABC, debuting Jan. 28, 8:30 p.m. EST) revolves around Max, a country mouse from Nebraska who moves in with his cousin and a ragtag band of rodents living in the basement of the White House. Anyone expecting savvy political satire, however, is due for disappointment. With a few exceptions (Max gets stuck in the briefcase of a Senator taking bribes), the comedy comes from sitcom-style wisecracks and routine cartoon sight gags that might...
...nicest surprise of the new season is a little-heralded show from NBC called The Torkelsons. The series revolves around a ragtag Oklahoma family of six: five kids and their poor but resourceful single mother (Connie Ray). In Wonder Years fashion, the central character is a sensitive teenager, 14-year- old Dorothy Jane, who monologizes from her bedroom window about how her crude family embarrasses...