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...herself, lives in a mansion and worries equally about her 9-ft. feather boa and the loss, many years past, of her only lover. She would seem to be easy prey for a cartel of international shysters (Yul Brynner, Paul Henreid,* Charles Boyer, Donald Pleasence and Oscar Homolka among them) who have discovered oil under the old lady's property. But she will not be moved, and she wins the aid of some colorful companions-a ragpicker (Danny Kaye), a waitress (Nanette Newman) and a young student activist (Richard Chamberlain). In the end, she overcomes, imprisoning the villains...
Prominent among the innumerable faults of this lumpish production is some of the most embarrassing acting of the year. Pleasence and, surprisingly, Brynner are both amusing, but Danny Kaye performs as if he were addressing a fund-raising rally for UNICEF. As for Katharine Hepburn, she has long since shrouded herself in her mannerisms. If anyone parodied her as outrageously as she parodies herself, she could easily sue for libel...
...surface, Michael and Margaret Pritchard are a rather ordinary childless couple. He is a shy, fairly dull curator of manuscripts at the Library of Congress, apparently content with an orderly retreat from life among the works of long dead poets. She is a good-looking, sensitive, sometimes witty middle-aged woman with a crippled hand from a childhood bout with polio. She feels his passion has waned, and wants more excitement in her life. He feels caged by the demands of her love. That worm in the bud eats at their inner emotional lives. Their affectionate love slowly evolves from...
...found to be "utterly without redeeming social value." Had Wallace let this fact into his fabrication, the case of The Seven Minutes would have lost nearly all the artificial relevance the author so strenuously pumped into it. Instead he is content to conclude with incontestable banalities -among them the assertion that books are vital to civilization and honest men can have disagreements about them...
...From the start the purpose of the Center has been to study the processes of change affecting international affairs, especially in the fields of development, the role and control of force, and the relations among the advanced countries of Europe and the Atlantic area. It has sought to foster work drawing on various disciplines and on field studies and experience...