Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter that Haldeman sent to Sirica before he was sentenced last June, he wrote: "I recognize the terrible cost to the nation that this whole Watergate case has represented, and I will carry for the rest of my life the burden of knowing that I played a major role in that tragedy...
Mitchell and Haldeman may be out of prison as early as next June. Ehrlichman, who voluntarily began to serve his time while his appeal was pending, must wait to see whether another judge, Gerhard Gesell, will reduce his concurrent sentence for his role in the plumbers' operations. If that happens, as expected, he could be free by the end of January...
...restore order to Egypt if he was going to rule effectively, and we know he moved the capital from Akhetaton [which is now called Tel el Amarna] back to Thebes. What we've found here so far suggests that he would have had a major role in promoting the cult of Mut, which would be a logical move if he were trying to unite Egypt...
...mixture of Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia and Dick and Jane," says Jennifer O'Neill about the movie version of James Michener's Caravans. Jennifer, 29, won acclaim for her role as a grieving but indulgent young war widow in Summer of '42. This time she plays an adventurous American woman who follows a desert caravan and wins the grudging respect of a nomad chieftain (Anthony Quinn). Caravan is being filmed in Iran, and Jennifer sometimes longs for the comforts of home. "It's terribly hot," she says. "Your eyes get red, the winds whip sand...
Birsh has by far the most difficult role and he comes up with mixed results. His insane ravings are often touching or comic, but the role is somewhat difficult to maintain. At times he reaches deep pathos and then he degenerates into a take-off of David Frye's Nixon. He has excellent lines with which to work but he still needs to develop a true feeling of what insanity is like...