Word: sada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth slot, Chuck Elliott sent Armando Garza-Sada home to slide rules and calculators early as he won the lop-sided match, 15-5, 15-7, and 15-8. John Fishwick only gave up eight points in all of his short-lived outing against Lloyd Benjamin. In the words of Manager White Ford, Fishwick "gave him the donut," scoring a 15-0, 15-5, 15-3 whitewash...
...crux of the plot, Papa Peppino (Eli Wallach) is seething with suppressed virility because Mama Rosa (Sada Thompson) has denied him the full use of the matrimonial bed for some four months. Furthermore, she does not wave to him from the balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them...
...held up banks and businesses all over Jalisco State, of which Guadalajara is the capital. Another group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, has also carried out a campaign of bank heists and kidnapings, while the Spartacus Leninist League last year murdered Monterrey's industrial patriarch, Eugenic Garza Sada, 82. Yet a fourth group, the Party of the Poor, led by a former schoolteacher, Lucio Cabañas, operates from the rugged mountains of Guerrero State near Acapulco, where it is successfully eluding 10,000 army troops. None of the guerrilla groups are believed to number more than...
...find the busy Executive distracted from the pursuit of the war by a wife (Sada Thompson) far gone in status panic-running up huge bills, insulting society ladies, publicly accusing her husband of infidelity, even being investigated for disloyalty by a congressional committee. Lincoln's nobility in the face of this passeth all understanding, despite a canny, understated performance by Hal Holbrook...
While she is ably supported by the rest of the cast and buoyantly directed by Michael Bennett, the co-director and choreographer of Follies, it is Sada Thompson who puts in shadings of voice and nuances of humor and emotion that salvage the script. Let us hope that Broadway is never so careless as to lose...