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Though the proof is not always in the perusing, the independent Toledo Blade and the arch-Republican Los Angeles Times make similar claims to fame. The Blade, according to its masthead, is ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The L.A. Times reaches further, dubs itself ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The World's Greatest Newspaper? By decree of the late Colonel Bertie McCormick, that title was taken by his own Chicago Daily Tribune in 1911. As a staffer shrugged last week, "We can hardly back down...
...make it the evening's high sigh spot. As Major General Stanley, spindle-thin Eric House tackles the greatest polysyllabic scat song of the 19th century and "in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral" he is never tongue-tried. But Frederic, as played by Andrew Downie, is more arch boulevardier than sheltered buccaneer...
...PIES AND OTHER RECIPES (by Marjorie Winslow, with illustrations by Erik Blegvad; Macmillan; $2.50) varies between arch and fallen arch. The sly fringe benefit for parental readers is the spoofing of standard cookbook lingo. Sample recipe...
...less content with the four young people. Faye Dunaway's Hypatia Tarleton (the Young Thing) shouts and mouthes her lines magnificently--rather like the tutored Eliza Doolittle. But a shout seems to be the limit of Miss Dunaway's acting capabilities, and she is less than arch, more that dull. As her original suitor, Jere Whiting is determinedly effeminate (he can shout, too); Robert Moulthrop, her eventual choice, must be a stout fellow, but his Etonian ways do not convince. The fourth one, William Gordy, Hypatia's brother, barks gruffy; he is not a little tedious...
Though Senator Barry Goldwater is often tagged "far right" and "arch" and "ultra conservative" by our fearful, ultra-whited, journalistic sepulchers, he speaks and acts like a splendid classical liberal-one of the few public men producing sense instead of gobbledygook...