Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its superb ensemble work, the British National company has been unable to conceal during this Los Angeles run that it has one actress on its roster with the special authority of a star, Maggie Smith. As Masha, flinging herself into the brief, doomed adulterous affair with Colonel Vershinin (Robert Stephens), she is the incandescent epitome of all women in love. Here is a Hedda Gabler of a Russian provincial town, a woman of fire, intelligence, gravity and spirit, married to a bureaucratic paper clip of a man who bores her to headaches rather than tears. Impelled to passion with...
...only comic relief in the whole ghastly affair is created by Ringo-to no one's credit but his own. Director Joseph McGrath apparently intended to exploit the popular Beatle brand of ironic mischief. Instead, Ringo's smirking indifference to his superfluous role neatly mocks the film itself...
...soft spots in the gesture are obvious, waiting for the cynical poke: June of 1974 is, after all, still a long time off, and it is hard to know what Pusey will do between now and then. From a stylistic point of view. Pusey managed to conduct the whole affair without leaving the slightest trace of a mental truce between the forces who have opposed him. In his announcement, he lined himself squarely with "those great classes of graduates-largely from the 1920's and 1930's." and prepared to bow out with them...
Butler admits there is only the slimmest evidence that Batsell was involved in the forgery, but says that people seriously interested in the Zinoviev affair should look into the American angle more closely...
...Europe, feature what he describes as "a bit of show biz" and big-name speakers who get fees as high as $3,000. They discourse on trends and ideas in and out of the market that Kaplan thinks will interest investors. At last week's three-day affair, Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader urged institutional investors to press corporate managements to do more about safety and pollution control. Mutual Fund Millionaire Bernard Cornfeld warned that the Viet Nam War and U.S. social turmoil were making American investments less attractive to Europeans, and Newscaster David Brinkley spoke about the inefficiency...