Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barthelme have toyed for years with the mass-produced icons that have invaded the communal memory. But King takes them dead seriously, and so, evidently, do his millions of readers. A devoted child of the audiovisual age, the millionaire author still likes to get up in the morning and switch on rock 'n' roll. King, his wife Tabitha and their three children alternate between an airy modern house in a Maine village and a 23-room Victorian extravaganza in Bangor. Wherever he happens to be, King compulsively churns out 1,500 words a day, just...
...despite their differences in age and sex, a kindred eccentricity of spirit. He is a very clean old man (especially as portrayed by the innocent-eyed Hector Alterio), and it is she who lures him on into an affair that is chaste sexually, utterly enthralling emotionally. The switch-it is the child who entraps, the adult who is victimized-is full of delicious irony. But it is with dark deftness that Writer-Director Arminan has Goyita increase her demands on Alejandro until she brings him to destruction, herself to an awareness of female power. One goes smiling to the film...
...made and there is no one else to make it but you." Yet he has no regrets, not even a Walter Mittyish twinge to be back in the movies in a juicy wide-screen part. "I thought that I would miss that," he says, referring to his switch from films to politics. Harking back to his days as Governor of California, he recalls, "Nancy and I looked at each other one night in the living room in Sacramento and said, 'This makes everything we've ever done seem dull as dishwater.' It is the same way here...
...taught its only course focusing on racial-minority matters, it asked black Lawyer Julius LeVonne Chambers to take over in 1982-83. Chambers asked Greenberg to help. At the same time, the course was rescheduled from its usual slot to an intensive three-week January miniterm. The switch and the choice of a white teacher were "insulting," said Muhammad Kenyatta, head of the 125-member Black Law Students Association. Kenyatta has created a major stir on campus by calling for a boycott of the course by students...
...Star salaries just went crazy," says Edward Torres, owner of the Aladdin, which made the switch to revues in March. "The performers have absolutely no regard for the casino operator. People don't want to pay $40 or $50 a ticket to see them." Indeed, after Labor Day, only three Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace, the MGM Grand and the Riviera, plan to book headliners, less than half the number often years...