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...vitalization and, if you will, resurrection. Bob Dylan appeared in public for the first time in years at the Concert for Bangla Desh, and Jeff Beck made a come-back with a new album and a new group. Even the Beach Boys were able to draw critical acclaim with the release of the surprising Surf...
...Gloucester and Kent is eliminated; the film begins immediately with the parcelling of the kingdom among the three daughters. The first words are Lear's "Know we have divided-in three our kingdom...", Brook thrusting us into crisis at once. Within five minutes Cordelia has already refused to publicly acclaim her love for her father. Lear has disowned her, and the central dramatic movement...
...learns to appreciate the remaining football games more and more. For, above anything else, this Ivy football season is distinctive for its widespread mediocrity, while each winter sport is dominated by a single school. Glancing over the upcoming events, one can pick the winners and losers of winter acclaim rather easily. In basketball, Penn dominates the scene, and Princeton and Harvard have little to fear from Brown, Cornell, or Yale. In fencing, Columbia has taken the Ivy title 13 of the past 15 years, and in most other sports one team is associated with the role of champion (Gymnastics-Cornell...
...Pleased now with the acclaim that is greeting The Last Picture Show, Bogdanovich denies that he was trying to say something about American apathy and brutality. "I don't make movies to say anything," he insists. "I make them because I enjoy making that kind of picture, showing a specific emotion on the screen." Bogdanovich not only enjoys making movies, he virtually lives them. His face has the occupational pallor of long days spent on sound stages; a typical conversational aside begins "Wasn't it Orson who said . . . ?" and a favorite Bogdanovich recreation at parties is doing imitations...
Paton served until 1968 as President of South Africa's Liberal Party. His novel, Gry, the Beloved Country, published in 1958, received international acclaim as a protest against the racist system of South Africa. His other writings include Too Late, the Philanthrope and The Land and People of South Africa. Yale honored him with a Doctor of Letters degree...