Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. In telling the tragic story of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, the last of the Romanov dynasty, Author Massie stresses the crucial role of Rasputin in discrediting the imperial family in the people's eyes...
DAVID ATLAS Syracuse Sir: Like many people on this side of the Atlantic, I have for long suffered misgivings about the U.S. role in Viet...
...Vietnamese electorate warmed to its role, the civilian candidates who had been crying foul seemed to cool off. The civilian with the best chance of making a strong showing against the Thieu-Ky ticket, former Premier Tran Van Huong, announced that "harass ment has diminished." Front-running Thieu had his own reply to charges of election rigging: "If I were to win the elections by foul means, it would be an insult to myself." President Johnson's 22 observers arrived to see for themselves, and were clearly impressed with the mechanical organization of the balloting. Some 100,000 people...
...keeps bursting out of her undercover role. Soon she cannot even get on a plane without having a sinister admirer close behind, and even with a program, the viewer has as much trouble as Raquel keeping track of the villains. Is he bleach-boy Anthony Franciosa, who has dyed his hair in an effort to look like James Blond? Or is he Clive Revill, the overstuffed art collector? Are the British agents fakes? Or is the genuine phony really Raquel after...
Throughout, in bikinis, peekaboo dresses and microskirts, Raquel tries to come on as the movies' newest sex queen. For that role, her credentials are ample, but Raquel welches on herself every time she speaks. Wide-eyed, openmouthed, understanding things "perfeckly," going after stolen "objecks," she seems less a living, breathing doll than an antiseptic Barbie doll who got lost on her way to the nursery...