Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk of the town. After all, this was only the second time since 1949 that the U.S. Navy had visited China. But the city's attention was riveted on the Bund, the broad avenue along the river where 100,000 protesters marched. Thus the ships neatly symbolized the peripheral role that Washington played throughout last week. With the explosion of people power, the State Department could do little but advise Beijing to use caution, and it had only a few desultory comments about the historic handshake between Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping. Finding American officials who were even slightly uneasy...
...Beijing will promote closer North-South relations on the Korean peninsula with an eye toward reducing the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. That's good, but not if it leads to intimidation of the South's burgeoning democracy. Japan, unsure about its new global political role, will almost certainly be next to receive the full brunt of the Gorbachev charm offensive. That's bad only if it dilutes the Washington-Tokyo relationship and forces the U.S. into a less central role in Asia...
...their newest, most invigorating collaboration, these three godfathers of the '80s action epic have adopted a father of their own. Sean Connery, who as James Bond helped sire the thrill-machine genre, brings his masterly charm to the role of Indiana's estranged dad Henry Jones. Lucas and Spielberg, Ford and Connery prove that a sequel can be as fresh as the face of a teenage Indy confronting his first hairbreadth challenge. Indy 3 is the same, different and better. It infuses vitality into the action-adventure, a movie staple whose ravenous popularity and endless, predictable permutations have nearly exhausted...
Indy 3, like Raiders, features airplane stunts, a brawl on a careering vehicle and a sacred quest: a search for the Holy Grail, the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper. The film expands the role of Denholm Elliott as a museum curator and tosses in a cameo appearance by Adolf Hitler, who autographs Henry's Grail diary. A new twist is Elsa (capable Alison Doody), a blond sorceress poised between greed and glory. She is an Indy gone wrong, and the series' first indispensable female...
...much behind him and so many hidden elements in his life." In the beginning Henry speaks to his long-lost son slowly, with wide eyes and grand gestures, as if Indy were a child in need of gentle remedial education. "I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father," Connery says of Henry (remember, the Jones family hails from Utah). "And have fun I did -- so much so that I told Harrison, 'If you give me all the jokes, you'll really have to work for your scenes...