Word: stand-in
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...stabbed and bullet-riddled bodies of Rolando Olalia, the president of the People's Party and the leader of the country's largest labor federation, and his driver were found beside a Manila highway. His party, a coalition of left-leaning groups, is regarded by many as a stand-in for the banned Communist Party. Before Olalia's murder, the People's Party had promised to take to the streets in a "people's uprising" if anyone attempted a coup...
...going to go ahead and do what we said we would do." Never mind that a presidential draft has not succeeded in modern times. Never mind that the avenue presenting the fewest technical barriers for the campaign would be an awkward "national surrogate" strategy involving a stand-in who would go on the stump, presumably pressing palms and kissing babies for Iacocca. There is no direct precedent for a substitute enunciating the views of a silent and absent candidate. Such a campaign would draw close FEC scrutiny if it attempted to get federal financing...
...surrogate mother, Shannon Boff, 23, of Redford Township, Mich., is an old pro at the stand-in trade: she had a baby last year through the standard artificial-insemination procedure in which the fertilized egg was hers. "I think I'm going into retirement," says Boff, a married student with a 3-year- old boy of her own. "Any more babies coming from me are going to be keepers...
...director, Walter Drogue Jr., is the son of another director, "a man from the mists of legend, a contemporary of Walsh and Sturges and Hawkes." For reasons not entirely clear, the old man is on the set and becoming interested in the nubile woman who is Lu Anne's stand-in. "Maybe there's something there, eh?" he asks his son. "Maybe nature didn't intend her for just an extra." Drogue the younger replies, "Nature intended her for a water spaniel. She can't name the days of the week...
Stranded at the eleventh hour without their star, the producers scoured a London actors' directory and picked Denis De Marne to serve as a stand-in for Peter's remaining scenes. After first balking, Schell later dubbed in De Marne's dialogue. The cinematic sleight of hand is deft but damaging: Peter retreats into shadows and long shots for several crucial scenes in the movie's final segment...