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Unfortunately for Marlowe's dramatic scheme, Derek Pajaczkowski, an otherwise competent actor, is badly miscast as Faustus. Visually wrong for the part--Faustus is a mature scholar, not a brawny youth--Pajaczkowski plays the doctor as a brash, young man who struts around the stage with a sustained smirk. While this approach works adequately in the comic sequences, Pajaczkowski lacks the dramatic range necessary to convey the full gamut of Faustus' tormented self-questioning. In addition, he experiences no minor difficulty reciting Marlowe's verse, placing his emphases seemingly at random--as though he knew some accents were needed...
...within such a painstaking, cumbersome medium as film has its penalties. The movies can get ragged and confused, their pacing languid. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie shows much of what is exasperating about Cassavetes. The film is unfocused, loony, indulgent. It is also very much worth indulging-a brash, tense, mysterious night piece unlike anything Cassavetes has attempted before...
From the start, he was certain he was destined for greatness. When the young O'Hara boasted he would be in Who's Who by the age of thirty, his father, who always disapproved of his son's recklessness, predicted that by then John would be dead. But the brash young Irishman's prophesy turned out to be correct; he was 29 when the form for Who's Who arrived. Little had changed decades later, when O'Hara wrote to Bennett Cerf at Random House: "It's no secret that I am working to get the Nobel. I am constantly...
...integrity; he has never been associated with the right-wing, big money elements in the party. Thus it now seems virtually certain that he will serve out his full term as party leader, until 1977. Tanaka, on the other hand, has apparently had his wings clipped once again. The brash, unrepentant politician promised the nation a full answer to questions about his financial dealings when he resigned in 1974, but no explanation has ever come forth. He is still rich, head of his party's biggest faction, and a major architect of Liberal Democratic strategy. But the Lockheed affair...
...dart hit the board." George Moore, Citibank's great postwar expansionist, picked the young Wriston to direct the important European operation. Wriston was so successful that within three years he was heading the bank's entire foreign operations. From then on, there was little doubt that the brash young Wriston would some day boss the bank...