Word: cecill
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...NIRO PLAYS a squat Harvard graduate named Cecil. He lumbers about on the screen without true motivations. He misses a comic timing in his actions consequently making his performance staff and unresponsive. His performance--as well as Clayburgh's--makes one appreciate the more recent acting performances, but does little for The Wedding Party...
...subsequent analysis of the Cuban crisis, scholars and participants have dwelt on nuclear balances, geography and diplomatic tactics. It just could be that Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August, was as important as the U.S. Navy. It could be, too, that Lord David Cecil, who wrote Kennedy's favorite book, Melbourne, the biography of the youthful Queen Victoria's Prime Minister, and Winston Churchill, in his role as chronicler of the life of his ancestor Marlborough, were as important as the trusted aides who kept long vigils in the White House that October...
Kennedy knew he was on history's stage. His hero Melbourne had played it the way Kennedy wanted to. Wrote Cecil about Melbourne: "He was acutely responsive to the romance of history in the making, to the drama of great events...
...only Milwaukee runs came in the eighth inning when Cecil Cooper hit a him run with Paul Molitor on base...
...third, Milwaukee scored again on a fielder's choice grounder off the bat of Cecil Cooper. Paul Molitor started with a one-out single and Robin Yount followed with a grounder deep in the hole that allowed Molitor to take third after a throw to first was not in time...