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...Ringer...
...witch. In the gallows scene Lesley-Anne was forced to stand with a noose around her neck and her hands tied behind her back while she balanced atop a two-foot-high stool on a platform 15 feet above the ground. All this while Quasimodo, the hunchback bell ringer, played by Anthony Hopkins, 43, clumsily scrambled about trying to free her. "Anthony is no stunt man," says Lesley-Anne, "and the makeup job left him with just one eye open. I'm still having choking dreams...
Before 200 union members, Fritz K. Ringer, chief negotiator for the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said there remain four unsettled items in the proposed package: salary increases, fringe benefits, merit-granting procedures, and chapter membership rights...
...past two years, Montreal had been in contention until the final weekend, and this year the Expos were determined to go all the way. But a string of losses hurt those hopes, and Williams was shown the door. Oddly enough, even he had been tickled by the icy ringer of Steinbrenner. Williams was offered the post of Yankee manager after Houk departed, but he was then guiding the Oakland A's, and Owner Charles O. Finley refused to release him from his contract. Virdon was hired in his stead. If Steinbrenner proceeds normally, Williams should be an ex-Yankee...
...escaped sharp criticism of his nation's selective, restrictive import policies and its aggressive overseas selling. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister MacEachen explained the reluctance of the conferees to publicly criticize Japan: "When you are extolling the virtues of free trade, it is hard to point a ringer at the people who have been so brilliantly successful...