Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cults issue was thrust into harsh focus by last November's carnage at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana. The most dramatic moments of the four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...
...elect hard-working and responsible representitives whether they run on a CDU platform or not. I hope CDU representatives will vote decisions by the issue and officers by the person, and not according to prearrangement. What do I expect? I expect that. "Hope is...an expensive commodity." Kenneth John Ryan...
Bergen, who recently starred as Ryan O'Neal's replacement for his lost love Jenny in "Oliver's Story," will join the Pudding parade through the streets of Cambridge on February...
...Edward, who is portrayed in his maturity by Timothy West, learn the craft of statesmanship or take on any of the duties that normally fall to the Prince of Wales. Edward becomes a public wastrel, negligent of both his beautiful Danish wife (portrayed in her later years by Helen Ryan) and his role as future King. Only when the old Queen dies does he come into his own, vowing to wear the crown with dignity, which indeed he does. Like Crosbie, West gives a finely tuned and modulated performance, making altogether believable that most difficult of roles, the errant prince...
...Oliver of the title is, of course, Oliver Barrett IV, protagonist of Love Story (played again by Ryan O'Neal), and the picture follows him through a couple of years (it seems like more than that) of mooning over his wife Jenny's untimely demise. He buries himself in idealistic lawyering and psychoanalysis, but remains immune not only to sex but even to quite innocent social overtures. Then one day in Central Park he encounters Marcie (Candice Bergen). Since she seems to have some of Jenny's smart-mouthed spirit, he manages at last to accept...