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...parties on the Lusaka diplomatic circuit, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda often pointed to Vice President Simon Kapwepwe, his close friend since boyhood, and said fondly: "Look, there goes my revolutionary!" It was no casual sobriquet. A bearded, conspiratorial-looking firebrand who wears black and purple togas and carries an outsized walking stick, Kapwepwe was a militant nationalist leader as one of Kaunda's colleagues in the fight for independence from Britain. In a recent about-face, he became Kaunda's chief rival for political power. Last week Kapwepwe more than lived up to Kaunda's billing...
...that somehow it would be effeminate to pronounce the ow in fellow or the / in of. In a field where male stars are constantly rumored to be epicene, Wayne's masculinity is incontestable. As a boy he owned a dog named Duke. The child became Big Duke, and the sobriquet stuck. By 30, Big Duke was a looming figure of contained violence waiting for a place to let loose. "I was in a saloon once where a guy shot all the way down a bar," he once complained to a director during a western fight scene. "And I wanna tell...
Died. Sidney Weinberg, 77, financial giant who deserved the sobriquet "Mr. Wall Street" (see BUSINESS...
...Lemonade Lucy" was the sobriquet applied to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, member of the W.C.T.U., for refusing to serve liquor at White House affairs. Will Mrs. Nixon be dubbed "Punch-Bowl Pat" for serving church-social punch...
...most recent films, Godard has overemphasized polemic at the cost of the cast. In Weekend, for example, windy politics fray some of the film's visionary power. But in Pierrot Le Fou Godard shows that he can coax fine actors into superlative performances. Belmondo earns his lunatic (fou) sobriquet; his quirky bantam strut and broken-nosed banter are only a gasp away from Breathless. Karina's sensuality gives her ultimate villainy the quality of revelation...