Word: zorba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Accountant in Chief? After the first debate, however, polls showed this to be costly; a TIME poll revealed voters thinking that Dukakis had won, but that Bush (by 44% to 38%) was more likable. Dukakis aides began pushing for a "kinder, gentler," warmer Dukakis. In short, they wanted more Zorba, less Zeno...
...ended in the '50s when, ironically, Hollywood got a liberal conscience and concentrated on making amends to blacks. Hispanic roles became rare, and even those tended toward gang lords and victims. Mexican-born Anthony Quinn went abroad to graduate from Frito Bandito roles to stardom in La Strada and Zorba the Greek. The signal film was West Side Story. It said Latins were no longer domesticated birds of colorful plumage; now they were a social problem, a political cause set to barrio rhythms. What kind of guarantee was that for box-office gold...
...first appeared as the lusty Greek peasant in the 1964 film, which earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor. Now, 19 years later, Anthony Quinn, 68, is once again playing Zorba, this time in the flesh. Looking a little older and maybe even wiser, Quinn this week opens in a Broadway revival of a 1968 musical version, which originally starred Herschel Bernard!. The intervening years have hardly mellowed the Mexican-born Quinn's old-fashioned machismo. "Men don't know where they are with this women's liberation," he says. "I don't see many...
DIED. Boris Aronson, 81, Russian-born stage designer whose stylish, inventive sets for such Broadway shows as Cabaret and Zorba won him six Tony Awards; in Nyack, N.Y. An art student in Moscow and Paris before coming to New York in 1923, Aronson designed more than 100 theater, opera and ballet productions in 50 years, including a distinguished series of collaborations with Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures...