Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Particularly concerned are Baptists and conservative Lutherans, whose spiritual tradition strongly emphasizes absolute separation of religion and government. Although some Baptist colleges plan to apply for federal funds under the Higher Education Facilities Act, Baptists in Massachusetts have rejected public loans for hospital expansion under the Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act or for low-income housing under the National Housing Act. This summer, despite their sympathy for the aims of Project Head Start, they reluctantly decided not to participate directly, instead plan to start a similar program of their...
...articles: television sets, a score of sofas, hundreds of lamps, a truckload of beer. More than 3,000 of those arrested faced felony charges ranging from looting and armed burglary to arson and murder. To complicate things for the courts, some of the prisoners gave fake names like Richard Burton and Edward G. Robinson. According to a tongue-in-cheek theory making the rounds of white Los Angeles, the riots had not been halted by the National Guard; they simply petered out when all the rioters went home to see themselves on their looted TV sets...
...Sandpiper is a multimillion-dollar drama adapted from a penny-dreadful idea by Producer Martin Ransohoff. Filmed in the declivitous Big Sur country on the California coast, the movie offers mountains, sky, surf, birds and Elizabeth Taylor as an irresistible bohemian painter who lures an upright schoolmaster (Richard Burton) away from his loyal blonde wife. When Star Burton first read the script, he remarked that "it hits pretty close to home." Director Vincente Minnelli exploits this possibility with unctuous professionalism, fielding his glamorous duo in a romance à clef that they appear to take seriously...
When the law forces her wayward illegitimate son to enroll at a school for boys, Liz storms off to the beach to enjoy what's left of freedom. Burton, as the Rev. Mr. Hewitt, follows her, after carefully removing his clerical collar. She is a wild thing who tends wounded birds or casually poses nude-hands to bosom, in deference to a man of the cloth-for a sculptor...
...Sandpiper's absurd situations are matched by dialogue that beauty (hers) and talent (his) cannot vanquish. Liz flaunts her attachment to another wastrel whom she knew "in the Biblical sense-he had carnal knowledge of me." Though Burton's performance consists mostly of curtain speeches, he handles his lines with flair, particularly when he drags himself away from Liz's shack into the clean, cool air to intone sonorously: "Oh God, allow me some small remembrance of honor." The drabber phrases fall to Eva Marie Saint as the wife, whose patience and succor are apt to take...