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...certainly apt. The lone upperclassman in the top six is junior Sally Roberts, Martha's older sister. Yes, it really is one big happy family...
...group also arrived in Israel at a particularly apt time-just as Premier Begin was returning from his contentious talks with Jimmy Carter. Still fatigued from his unfruitful trip, Begin summarized: "My first meeting with President Carter was wonderful; the second very useful; the third quite difficult...
Blake's reputation has grown steadily over the past 50 years. He is no longer pictured as a dotty but harmless visionary, chatting with the prophet Ezekiel at dinner; nor is his art treated, as it once was, as an appendage to his poetry. He is more apt to be seen as one of the key figures in the history of English radicalism, rendering the upheavals of his time in a framework of cosmic mythology: the friend of Tom Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft, the burning allegorist of revolution in France and America, the poet of liberty. But no exhibition...
Despite all the shenanigans--and there are lots of them--High Anxiety somehow fails. In his search for a less manic style of humor Brooks has gone too far in the other direction; his own characterization provides an apt example. Thorndike, as played by Brooks, is a very serious gent, with all the dignity that befits a Harvard faculty member (tenured, of course) and a Nobel laureate. Thorndike radiates a sort of nervous rationality, except during his seizures of High Anxiety, so most of his good lines seem like deadpanned straight lines. Only once is Brooks himself very funny...
...were all but invisible on American television, except for those playing servants, like Jack Benny's valet Rochester or Ethel Walers in Beulah. As recently as 1968, a sponsor became apoplectic when Singer Petula Clark touched Harry Belafonte on the arm during a show. Some TV producers are apt to congratulate themselves for displaying so many blacks on TV now; even though mostly bad, the shows come weighed down with all kinds of pretensions to relevance...