Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turning points in history have a way of slipping by unnoticed. That may be the case this week and next, June 7 and 10, the dates of the first direct elections ever held for a European Parliament. In the nine nations of the European Community (E.G.), 180 million eligible voters will be electing a total of 410 representatives. Except in Britain, the Euro-parliamentarians will be chosen by proportional representation in their home countries: based mainly on population, West Germany, France, Britain and Italy are allotted 81 seats, while the five smaller members have between six and 25 seats. Unprecedented...
...regime also holds the power to veto assignments of bishops to particular cities. In an outrageous case, the Communists rejected 20 candidates for Archbishop of Wroclaw before accepting the supposedly "safe" Henryk Gulbinowicz. Jokes Minister Kakol: "The church knows the way we function, so the simplest thing would be for them to put their favorite candidate in last place...
There must be something good to say. Let us say yea for the way Theoni V. Aldredge has turned back the decades with the gracious flow of her costumes. And a resounding yea for David Mitchell's set, with its misty evocation of San Francisco and the ability to structure a home that looks lived in. But, alas, a frame doth not a picture make...
...gestures were minimal, her expressions were mercurial, delicate yet powerful in their capacity to affect the emotions. If there was, finally, something unsettling about the way she continued to play nymphets until she was well over 30, it was a tribute to her mimetic gifts that she did so with such total persuasiveness. The reason was largely that her child-woman screen character was anything but sticky sweet. In Stella Marts, for instance, she played a double role: a crippled heiress and a love-obsessed slavey who commits murder so that the heiress and her lover (whom the slavey also...
These were qualities that little Gladys Smith of Toronto apparently had at age five, when, after her father died, she started to act in stock companies. Under the guidance of her mother, the ultimate stage mom, she trouped her way out of the provinces to New York City. There Theatrical Producer David Belasco named her Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith, her first film director, began shaping the image from which she never quite escaped. "Through my professional creations," she once said, "I became, in a sense, my own child." She was not permitted her first romantic screen kiss until...