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...Luckily the film's cast is so extensive that by the time all the characters are introduced to the audience the film is more than half over. For in addition to the five famous detectives and their host, there are traveling companions, the most notable of whom is Eileen Brenan, who appears as Sam Diamond's loyal but abused Girl Friday. Attending to the guests is a blind butler named Bensonmum (Alec Guinness) and a deaf-mute cook (Nancy Walker...
There are some excellent supporting performances, most notably by the superb and subtle Miss Tristan, an actress who is not used often or deeply enough; by Eileen Brenan as a bitchy, blowsy barfly; and Richard Lynch as a sadistic homosexual. The film also has some remarkable photography by Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance, McCabe and Mrs Miller), whose graceful, supple lighting manages to be both realistic and quietly sensuous...
...other committee members are Stanley L. Cavell, Cabot Professor of Aesthetics; Frank M. Cross Jr. Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Onental Languages; Brenan A. Maher, professor of the Psychology of the Personality, William P. Reinhardt, associate professor of Chemistry; and Robert L. Wolff, Coolidge Professor of History...
...spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church...
Despite the committee's apparent fable action, John J. Brenan, a opponent of the NASA laboratory, he was "enchanted with the vote". closeness of the ballot indicated pread opposition to the project. aid indicating, that there would be attempt in Congress to kill...