Word: victor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assurances of goodwill been exchanged when another bitterly divisive issue surfaced that helped to explain why U.S. views of Mexico, as shown in the results of a Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman poll taken for TIME, tend to be so critical. One day after the presidential meeting, Washington officials reported that Victor Cortez Jr., 34, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, had been kidnaped in Guadalajara and brutally tortured by Mexican state officials before being released. An incensed Attorney General Edwin Meese responded to the news of the Cortez detention in a television interview by serving notice that...
Some suspicious citizens think their government has more in mind than the interdiction of drug manufacturing. "We keep hearing that there might be another coup," Victor Casasola, 53, whispers conspiratorially from behind the counter of his dress shop. "I think the government called in the gringo troops to protect itself from a military coup...
...meanwhile, opposition parties complained that President Victor Paz Estenssoro should have consulted his Congress before calling in the U.S. military. Even some high-placed Bolivians were dismayed by the turn of events. Said Jacobo Libermann, one of Paz Estenssoro's advisers: "We would have liked assistance of another nature, entirely run by Bolivians and carried out discreetly. Instead, we got the invasion of Normandy...
When he was 23 and breaking into the entertainment world, Alan Jay Lerner kept to "a schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights." He wrote daily radio sketches for Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, crafted material for Victor Borge and Hildegarde and contributed audio pageants to Cavalcade of America. Then one lunchtime at Manhattan's Lambs Club, where he hung around hoping to be noticed, a fortyish theater composer impulsively came up to his table. "You write good lyrics," said Frederick Loewe, who had heard Lerner's contributions to the club...
...dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones; the sword- flashing legerdemain and wind-whipping backflips of martial-arts movies; a tough guy who literally explodes from rage when his master dies; oh, and a giant uggy insect in the caverns...