Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather too reserved for camp, Lady Caroline Lamb entertains exactly because Bolt struggles to do something serious. He gives the disconcerting feeling of having wanted to say something gravely personal, an impression strongly reinforced by the presence of his wife, Sarah Miles, in the title role...
Directed by ROBERT BOLT Screenplay by ROBERT BOLT...
This liberally embellished biography of a woman who played muse to the Romantic era cannot really be called good, but it certainly is funny. The question is whether Writer-Director Robert Bolt achieved the hilarity by design or accident. His previous film work-for example, the scripts for those David Lean dirigibles Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter-has been pretty stiff and sobersided; silly, perhaps, but politely so. Here, making his debut as a film director, Bolt comes off rather like a De Mille with a university degree...
President Bolt's Annual Report to the Board of Overseers this week dealt only marginally with the issue that have figured significantly in the University this year...
...Strauss will handle his troublesome old pal John Connally is a larger question mark. He says that he will ask Connally to become more active in Democratic party affairs-assuming Connally does not bolt permanently to the Republicans. Some associates have reported a certain coolness between the Texas buddies, but they still share a lake house where their families vacation together and the two pols sip whisky and swap yarns...