Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sir Richard Attenborough's film (which runs over three hours) is itself the product of an unflagging will; it took him more than 20 years to finance and mount it (cost: about $22 million). In the circumstances it would be a pleasure to report that his directorial skill matched his producer's zeal, but Attenborough's style is traditional-stately. His imagery of the Indian landscape has a conventional handsomeness that is more predictable then enlivening. His staging of the many and brutal confrontations between Gandhi's followers and their official oppressors is competent and craftsmanlike...
After his Wednesday night speech in the Science Center on Selective Service, General Turnage invited dozens of questions by pointing his finger and saying "Yes. Sir." He never said "Yes, Ma'am" because he didn't call on any women. This is the question I never got to ask: "General, you say that nine million registered men are more than enough to fight a war. If only white men and women were drafted, they would probably be enough too, but Selective Service registration doesn't discriminate explicitly with regard to skin color. Why then does...
...wept, prayed and fretted that he might be next, but made sure that no one got the idea he was retiring. Sugar Ray Robinson spoke for all of the survivors in 1947 at the inquest for Jimmy Doyle. Before the knockout, did Robinson know he had Doyle in trouble? "Sir," Robinson answered softly, "getting people in trouble is my business...
Interviewer: Maestro, the Metropolitan Opera has unveiled Sir Peter Hall's new production of your opera Macbeth, starring Baritone Sherrill Milnes and Soprano Renata Scotto. When the revised version of Macbeth flopped in Paris in 1865, you were criticized for your treatment of Shakespeare. What attracted you to the play...
Interviewer: Of course, you went on to write the masterpieces of Otello and Falstaff, so your Shakespearean credentials are well in order. And Sir Peter, director of Britain's National Theater, obviously knows the Bard. His staging is almost cinematic in spots, using dissolves from one scene to another and staging a climactic final battle in stop action. What advice did you give...