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Moriarty, who won acclaim in the baseball film Bang the Drum Slowly and captured last season's Tony Award for his portrayal of a homosexual prostitute in Find Your Way Home, is an actor who conceptualizes a role. One can scarcely imagine him on a horse. But he is a spider of infinite guile and smarmy villainy. Moriarty has an uncanny capacity to disturb. It is part of his stage presence and power. One feels that others do his bidding because they are terribly afraid not to. Before achieving the throne he seems neurasthenically preoccupied, but at his coronation...
Lacombe, Lucien-which played at the New York Film Festival last week to considerable acclaim-is set in provincial France during the summer and fall of 1944, when Germany's defeat began to seem certain. Lucien (Pierre Blaise), still in his teens, works in a hospital ward. The cries and murmurs of pain from the wounded cause him to turn toward the window, to the summer sunlight. He sees a bird in a nearby tree, singing, and with a certain glee, kills it with his slingshot. It is almost a reflexive action, without real significance to Lucien...
...Ford concluded, there was an almost tangible lifting of spirits in the East Room and across the nation. From the Congress that had repudiated Richard Nixon, there was al most universal acclaim. "It will undoubtedly bring the country together," said Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott. "It was magnificent." Agreed Mike Mansfield: "It was superb. He hit all the right notes. It was authentic Jerry Ford...
...toured the Continent with Reinhardt's troupe, then, in 1938, fled from the Nazis to New York with her husband, Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar. After shining in such Broadway productions as Bravo (1948) and First Love (1961), Darvas won acclaim for her poignant portrayal of a 96-year-old invalid in the Hungarian film Love...
...ideological statement. The movie was supposed to open in the United States at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, but the center's film director pulled it at the last moment because he thought it was too "anti-American." When the film opened in New York it won acclaim from most critics, but it was also blasted as out-and-out propaganda. Although Costa's latest effort clearly has its polemical dimensions, the film's picture of the effects of American involvement in Latin American affairs proved pretty true to the mark when the Chilean military overthrew the government...