Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...master playwright bombinating into old age, dispensing unsolicited advice on every aspect of modern life from the flaws of the cinema to the indignities of sex. The first of a projected 20 volumes of Mark Twain's letters follows the literary apprentice -- at first still using his real name, Samuel Clemens -- as he flees Hannibal, Mo., to become a river pilot, then a journalist covering the gold-intoxicated frontiers of Nevada and California...
...certifiable American eccentrics. So says David Weeks, a clinical psychologist at Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland, who has just published a scientific study of 130 British oddballs, past and present. Among them: Samuel Johnson, the rotund 18th century author who amused friends by rolling down steep hills, and Prince Charles, who talks to plants, if not to his wife Princess Diana. The British study, however, is only a warm-up for a nearly completed analysis of 800 American eccentrics. The tentative conclusion: the U.S. has displaced Britain as the uncontested eccentricity capital of the world. Declares Weeks, a native...
Economics, not communications theory, has been the real impetus for the explosion in the export of U.S. news shows. "What we've got here are programs that are already produced," says Samuel Roberts, executive director of international broadcasts for CBS News. "Anything that we sell for overseas is just gravy." An increase in the number of communications satellites and the relaxation of strict state regulation of TV in many countries have encouraged the growth of new broadcast and cable channels. ABC has signed a deal with Dublin-based Anglo-Vision to distribute its news shows to hotels in 17 European...
...Samuel Sifton, as Jack, almost manages to rescue this script from its inherent inanity. He executes a brilliant performance as the paranoid schizophrenic, yet appealing, Jack. Sifton's high level of energy as the frenetically-crazed Jack never drops. Even during Jack's saner moments, Sifton shows how Jack is fundamentally disturbed...
...strike was in retaliation for damage suffered two weeks ago by the ^ American frigate Samuel B. Roberts after it hit an Iranian mine in international waters. Ten American crewmen were injured in the explosion and fire, the worst casualty toll since the accidental Iraqi attack about a year ago on the U.S.S. Stark that claimed 37 lives...