Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helped to depose Iran's leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, making way for the return of pro-Western Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi from exile in Rome. The next year, when the regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán seemed increasingly proCommunist, the CIA stage-managed a civil war that ended in Arbenz's overthrow. CIA agents dug a tunnel from West to East Berlin that succeeded in intercepting Communist communications until it was discovered...
...More Risk. The Cabinet took no decision on the future of just over 1,000,000 Arabs who inhabit the occupied territories, most of them living on the West Bank. But the new settlements and towns represent the "operative stage" of a far larger plan that encompasses these Arabs as well. That plan bears the signature of Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and dates back to the 1967 war, when he offered it as a suggestion to Premier Levi Eshkol while the guns were still firing. A month and three days after the fighting stopped, he presented his plan...
...anti-star occasionally flashes star temperament. Donald Driver, director of Jimmy Shine, remembers that "Dustin cut his finger on opening night in Baltimore. Long after it had healed, he insisted that the stage manager announce to the audience that Mr. Hoffman was appearing with a cut finger. It was a blatant bid for public sympathy." It also appears that Dustin never became too big to pick up small change. Jimmy Shine Producer Zev Bufman calls him "a hard bargainer who held us up for half the profits on the $1.00 souvenir programs because we didn't clear material about...
...Typist is a real live one-acter, unlike the other skits. It alone demands sobriety for appreciation. At fifteen, when I first saw the play, it seemed pretty boring just to have two typists sitting on stage talking. But to the credit of Miss Austin and her cast, things livened up for me second time around, although a judicious speed-up of pacing still could have helped the production...
Sylvia, the office supervisor, and Paul, the new employee, are on stage. In terms of action they enter and reenter, eat lunch, and wait to leave at five. Absolutely dull human beings. Except that they live and think just like all of us, so we have to be interested. We cannot term ourselves excruciatingly dasman...