Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel Ortega is often called shy, soft-spoken, retiring: "the reluctant ruler." Not Murillo. The First Lady maintains the kind of profile that goes with $300 glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain...
...pictures -- the nuns, and the crowds wearing a touch of yellow, blocking the path of the armored cars. It was the sight of ballot boxes being dumped. Read in a newspaper, Marcos' bluster might have been convincing, but seen on that palatial King and I set, with the ruler feebly speaking those strong words, it was not. In a precarious few days, it was the total collapse of Marcos' American support that sped the end. TV proved its awesome power...
...Manila it was after 5 o'clock in the morning of the longest day of Ferdinand Marcos' life. Before it was over, he would attend his final inauguration ceremony, a foolish charade carried out in the sanctuary of his Malacanang Palace. That evening, a ruler no more, he would flee with his family and retainers aboard four American helicopters to Clark Air Base on the first leg of a flight that would take him to Guam, Hawaii and exile...
...NUNN'S EFFORTS would be entirely fruitless, however, were it not for the expertise and finesse Helena Bonham Carter in providing Jane with a credible range of emotions to complement the metamorphoses undergone by her character as she progresses from shy, introverted, young scholar to innocent bride to the ruler of England. The catalyst which triggers this series of changes is her growing love for Guilford and her subsequent initiation into womanhood. Even taking into account the self-imposed constraints of cinematic exposition, Jane's blossoming into adulthood occurs far too quickly; on her wedding night, we see her reading...
MANILA, Philippines--Four people were killed stealing ballot boxes, the government said, and a military alert was extended as millions of Filipinos voted this morning for a president--Ferdinand E. Marcos, ruler for 20 years, or Corazon Aquino, widow of his assassinated rival...