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...that it deserves a place as the Article of the Year; not that I have read all the rest of them, but I can recognize a unique breadth of feeling for the needs and the drifts of the times. I would like to know and shake hands with the chap who did it, but I won't ask any indiscreet questions...
...charming chap, he got along nicely with the U.S. State Department, which issued him a temporary visa. Struelens, now 34, set up shop on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, settled down to promote Tshombe's cause indefinitely...
Fractured Face. Everyone who knows him says that Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Robert Morgenthau is a chap of ability and good will. But he has what Madison Avenue discreetly calls "a projection problem." Every time he smiles it appears that he has fractured his face. His voice has all the emotion of a stenotypist reading back a transcript. His campaign is chaotic. Things recently got so confused that Vice President Lyndon Johnson disgustedly canceled a Harlem campaign tour with Morgenthau. When Jack Kennedy came to town, Morgenthau got his picture taken with the President-who spent most of his time chatting...
Away from Ravello. the Radziwills live relatively unnoticed in their London town house. Bulky, mustachioed Stash Radziwill wrestles a Cadillac around narrow London streets and looks like the chap who got his comeuppance in the final reel of every Pearl White thriller. Except for a slight accent, he is as English as the Ascot-almost. The prince arrived in London after World War II with little to his name but his name. He made some quick killings in real estate, and has settled down to quiet dabbling. Slash's cash has enabled the Radziwills to furnish their elegant Georgian...
...begrimed in an unhealthy context, which is what the film is trying to express from start to finish. Consistently, Courtenay preserves a delicate equilibrium between sympathy and repulsion; he manages to suggest a worthless hood who might have been a gifted contributor to another society-not a nice chap gone wrong, but rather a congenitally wrong one who might have gone right. Because this sort of role is so easy as a cliche (the whore with the 14-carat heart), it is extraordinarily difficult to do honestly. Courtenay does it with an honesty so ruthless that it makes the film...