Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ordinarily one tends to suspect movies that veer too radically from the intent of their original sources. But Whose Life remains true to the highest purpose of the play: to set forth with honesty, passion and wit the arguments for and against euthanasia. That one so intensely wants the Dreyfuss character to change his mind is a tribute to the actor's unquenchable vitality, and for many it may make the film more poignant. Who can doubt that it is more touching-and discomfiting-to see a man commit a good and valuable spirit to a wrong cause than...
...Woodland Hills, Calif. Von Zell started his career in 1927 as a singer for a small California station. As a CBS announcer, he achieved notoriety when he introduced President Herbert Hoover as "Hoobert Heever." Von Zell was a commentator on early March of Time programs and his quick wit won him roles on the radio shows of Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and Ed Wynn...
...white and blue boulevardier. his native good sense sharpened with Parisian wit, Thomson deftly sidesteps the question of his reaction to all the tributes: "I don't know what my emotions are. I don't give them names. If you give names to your feelings, then you are stuck with them." Chatting with fellow Composer Philip Glass-whose opera Satyagraha has been the most discussed piece of the year-he succinctly bridges the gap between his own down-home aesthetic and Glass's new-wave minimalism: "Glass makes an opera in Sanskrit, and I make an opera...
...blood between its pages, Fear Itself is a celebration of life. Kanfer, Books editor of TIME and author of The Eighth Sin, a 1978 novel about Nazi efforts to exterminate gypsies, writes with wit, subtlety and passion. Not all the ire is directed at the death-camp butchers. In passages as sardonic as any ever written about war-bloated Hollywood, Kanfer describes the unconcern of some successful American Jews for their doomed brethren in Europe. It is a part of the terrible secret that Fear Itself embodies in an exciting work of fiction...
...gave him a welcoming ovation. Brady should be home from the hospital by Thanksgiving, and although he is still partially paralyzed on his left side, he will eventually be able to walk with a cane. A full recovery is still uncertain. Even so, the press secretary's impish wit was much in evidence. Joined for the ribbon-cutting in the press room by the President and First Lady Nancy Reagan, Brady smiled as the President told reporters, "This room is built over a swimming pool. It isn't true, however, that the floor has been hinged." Riposted Brady...