Word: rin
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...jets reportedly blew up a 500-yd. segment of the main road that connects Beirut with the south, effectively blocking the passage of Lebanese refugees seeking escape from the relentless bombings. Israeli gunships off the southern Lebanese coast joined the attack by shelling the village of Ras el Rin and the Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh, near the Israeli border. Just outside Damur, south of Beirut, more than 20 mutilated bodies lay strewn across the road. On the route to Sidon, a civilian bus was struck by a bomb that killed 20 passengers and wounded 35 others...
...movies, starting in the 1930s, who bullied but finally succumbed to the likes of Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in San Quentin and who later won fame with the video generation as the bumbling, comic Sergeant Biff O'Hara in TV's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin from 1954 to 1960; of liver cancer; in Ashland, Ore., on April...
...father, Piano Virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein, had trained him as a musician, and he turned out to have a natural tal ent for the language of hand and rin gers. It took him only three weeks to learn to sign the role fluently. "I fell in love with the whole concept of sign," he says, "communicating physically and poetically." What makes the role so difficult is that he must speak...
DIED. Darryl Zanuck, 77, imperious production chief at 20th Century-Fox for 35 years and a thousand films; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. The cigar-chomping, polo-playing mogul got his Hollywood break when Warner Bros, hired him as a $250-a-week scenarist for Rin Tin Tin. In four years he was head of production at 20 times that salary. Warner's Wunderkind brought dialogue to feature films (The Jazz Singer, 1927) and pioneered such realistic genres as the gangster and "working gal" films. In 1933 Zanuck and United Artists Head Joseph M. Schenck formed 20th Century...