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...result, housing, which has only recovered from the 1966 squeeze, seems certain to suffer again (see BUSINESS). Car sales may also slow down. But no one seems very alarmed. "I don't see any drastic reaction," says Economist Beryl Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "It just seems to confirm the view that this time the policymakers really mean business...
Robert Aldrich's film is a fairly straight adaptation of the play by Frank Marcus, which opened in London in 1965 and subsequently came to Broadway. Much of the humor in the film comes directly from Marcus's script; Beryl Reid, who starred in the play, supplies the rest. As Sister George, she plays an again television actress who is being written out of her part in the soap-opera she helped to create. "They are going to murder me," she announces to her flatmate. "I've suspected it for some time...
...next few installments, leaving June Buckridge without a job and without the identity she has built since the start of the serial six years ago. Off-screen she has a tendency to get drunk, still spouting the platitudes of Sister George--along with her own opinions. Beryl Reid plays her scenes with a witty flair that none of the other characters ever approaches...
...There's not enough kindness in the world," whimpers the chunky lesbian, knocking back the booze. The worn insight is typical of the maundering dialogue in The Killing of Sister George, an autopsy of a homosexual affair. The heroine (Beryl Reid) is an actress with a single role: Sister George, a kindly, cuddly nurse on a British soap opera. Offscreen, she drops the smarmy smile and becomes an abrading machine running on alcohol and programmed for self-destruction...
Volpe is the target of strong criticism in a report on welfare that was released earlier this week by the legislative committee on social welfare headed by Sen. Beryl W. Cohen (D--Brookline...