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...SEVEN DESCENTS OF MYRTLE. When an impotent transvestite (Brian Bedford) who is dying of TB brings home the sometime prostitute (Estelle Parsons) whom he has just married to meet his half-breed half brother (Harry Guardino) just as the family farmhouse is threatened with flood, we have the classic elements of a Tennessee Williams play. Unhappily, the early Williams' drive seems to have succumbed to drift, and eloquence to colloquialisms. Despite uniformly excellent acting, Myrtle seems like a sleepwalking tour of a dusty attic...
AFTER a particularly hard dav with the press, one McCarthy aide said that he liked some of the reporters covering the campaign, but then went on to generalize about the breed--"A bunch of cry-babies...
Faculty members said the shooting incident was "the culmination of attitudes and practices opposed to the educational aim of the University, and that such practices breed intolerance and bigotry...
...unlikely choice for the task if only because he is a Slovak-the first ever to be entrusted with the most powerful office in the land. Though he has spent most of his adult life as a Communist apparatchik, he has none of the iron rigidity of that breed. Polite and softspoken, he is a master of restraint and poise, dislikes both dogmatism and pyrotechnics. A persuader rather than a strong-arm man, he consults colleagues before acting, feels that changes within the party should be worked out by comradely compromise rather than by dictation from...
...emblazoned SHERAF that his kids made for him. Fonda has the wound.in his side, and later his wounded psyche, nursed by a local spinster (Inger Stevens), while his boys raise hell with an itinerant preacher (Ed Begley), smash up a saloon, and try to gang-rape the town half-breed (Barbara Luna). This results in one of them being killed by the town half-wit (J. Robert Porter...