Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taming of the Shrew. Burton and Taylor in happier, if fatter, times. Franco Zefferelli directed this lush adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy, and the transition from stage to screen is a ribald, rousing success. The still beautiful Taylor and the seething, brutal Burton swagger through the film with consummate ease, and one suspects this is because they have played the same roles for real. Channel...
...told every brush with the great and the near great supposedly has its poignant moments, proving that they are just folks after all. My experience seemed notably lacking, though there was one that might qualify. While á deux with Mrs. Taylor-Burton and a beaker of champagne, she remarked that Richard often considered returning to Oxford to become a simple don. This was said with great sincerity and a straight face. Which-since the lady was at the time wearing a stupefying wig made from the scalps of at least nine healthy Italians and a frock costing upwards...
...considering building a home in Austria and putting in some annuals, our chores finally came to an end. Four weeks and umpteen transatlantic phone calls after it began, I returned home-richer, thinner, sporting a veneer of Weltschmerz and the ability to do a staggering imitation of R. Burton, which is pretty effective, if not particularly useful...
...wake of Magruder's testimony, TIME Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton interviewed Coffin. The chaplain does not find Magruder's arguments persuasive and still flunks him on ethics. "There was not very much on civil disobedience in the ethics course I taught," he says, "so poor old Jeb never learned to tell the difference between civil disobedience and violations of the Constitution by the Administration...
Sure enough, Liz and Richard Burton had landed at Kennedy Airport on one of their guest appearances in the U.S. They were off to Quogue, Long Island, and then to Arizona to see Liz's mother. In July, Richard will star in a film from a Pirandello short story and Liz in the cinematic adaptation of Muriel Spark's chiller The Driver's Seat. But Richard still maintains that some day he's going to throw it all over and become an Oxford don. According to Oxford, it is up to him to choose the date...