Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With her style and presence, Geraldine Ferraro was by far the liveliest of the four nominees. Intense, good-humored, always listening (a rare trait in a politician), she surprised Americans with her fast-mouthed New Yorker's style. Still, although Ferraro was a first-class campaigner, it was not she but Walter Mondale who made the decision to put her on a national ticket...
...volatile" directorial style. Reporter John Wright tracked down more than a dozen of Lean's past and present colleagues in England, including Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness. In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka spoke with Producer Sam Spiegel and Director Michael Powell and landed a rare interview with Katharine Hepburn, whose friendship with Lean dates back to their collaboration in the 1955 movie Summertime...
...star was bothered about her new role. "Would a thinking woman, a feminist do this?" she asked herself, then decided that the script was "extremely funny and made sense." Another departure for Seymour are three scenes in scanty black underwear. Running around close to au naturel, she says, "is rare...
After introducing a number of economic reforms over the past few years, China last week adopted a device common in Western newspapers: the correction. That rare gesture came after People's Daily printed a front-page commentary asserting "We cannot expect the works of Marx and Lenin to solve our present-day problems of that time." Two days later, however, the paper announced that its commentary should have read, "We cannot expect the works of Marx and Lenin of that time to solve all of our present-day problems...
...recognize the King's right to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. Hans Holbein's sketch shows a prosperous Londoner in a fur-trimmed robe, surrounded by his family and his possessions-silver dishes in the cupboard, and a shelf or two of those rare luxuries, books. Mounted on the wall, dangling above More's head like a sword, hangs a clock...