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...Nordic team was led by the consistently stalwart performances of junior captain Anna McLoon...
DIED. ROBERT STACK, 84, grimacing movie stalwart; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Over a 60-year career, he is best remembered as Eliot Ness in TV's The Untouchables. But the L.A. native was equally impressive in 1950s epics by Budd Boetticher (The Bullfighter and the Lady), Samuel Fuller (House of Bamboo) and William Wellman (The High and the Mighty). Beneath his rugged looks and rough voice, Stack often suggested a psychic danger, an imminent imploding that got him an Oscar nomination for Written on the Wind and gave his Ness the undertone of obsessiveness: a G-man Javert...
...same one that has confronted them since 1959: How should the United States respond? Those calling for an end to U.S. sanctions include a diverse mix of senators, congressional representatives, business lobbyists and journalists—and not just political liberals, either. Indeed, no less a conservative stalwart than the Wall Street Journal editorial page has advocated lifting the embargo...
...Short Cut Tanjong Jara stalwart Pak Aksah offers tutorials in village games, such as chongcat...
...musical shift is understandable, considering the less than amicable departure of stalwart guitarist Graham Coxon (the band cited “antisocial behavior”). Fortunately for listeners, Coxon’s absence leaves Albarn free to incorporate influences from recent collaborators Gorillaz, for whom Albarn served as frontman, and Massive Attack...