Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steve Biko has been a martyr to South Africa's antiapartheid movement since his death in 1977 from brain injuries suffered while in police custody. In Pretoria last week, the South African Medical and Dental Council acted against two white government doctors for their treatment of Biko. Surgeon Benjamin Tucker was found guilty of "disgraceful" conduct, including failure to examine Biko properly and allowing police to move the badly injured prisoner 700 miles overland to a prison hospital. The panel also ruled that Surgeon Ivor Lang was guilty of "improper" conduct for, among other things, failing to notice a wound...
...Gong Show, a sort of television Ship of Fools, and won second place with a trained plant act. (He put a fern through a hoop, shot a plant out of a cannon, sawed a plant in half. An old lady from Santa Monica beat him with a Sophie Tucker impersonation...
...sugary Amos flips his tricorner for Alice, but Mandy and the sadistic Mayor are out for witchflesh. Mandy, together with goodtime-guys Pastor Pryme (Tucker McCrady) and Judge Mental (Ron Duvernay), wants the witches for a traditional roast, but the Mayor has them in mind as potential subjects for "medical experiments." (This persistent line, even more egregious when pronounced in a German accent, is the one real misstep in a script which otherwise admirably achieves humor while sidestepping the truly tasteless.) Rounding out the posse is the simpering Mona Lott (Brad Daley), who has been carefully coached to shudder incontrollably...
...under way in the Soviet Union as the country prepared to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany. For the first time since 1956, Stalin was being praised as a strategic genius and a superb wartime commander in chief. Says Stalin Biographer Robert C. Tucker: "The Soviet authorities evidently thought it was a good time for Stalin's daughter to come home." No doubt they were aware of her emotional turmoil. Anticipating that an official emissary from Moscow would be rebuffed by Svetlana, they apparently decided to use her son Joseph, Stalin's namesake, as their...
...performers absolutely capture the audience. Tucker McCrady exploits the role of Princess Ida's father, who can not bear to be happy, to the fullest. His first solo, "I Can't Think Why", demonstrates his rare ability at combining excellent acting with singing. Mark Meredith, as Syril, the Prince's companion, steals the show with his solo "Kiss Me, Kiss Me", his only fault, if it can be called one, is overshadowing the Prince...