Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this overlong first step in the cinematic canonization of John F. Ken nedy, Actor Cliff Robertson wisely jettisons any attempt at the J.F.K. speech and hair styles. It is bad enough to hear shipmates Ty Hardin and Robert Gulp talk disrespectfully to the gung-ho young lieutenant, but then, they didn't realize he was going to be President. Only Kennedy knew that...
...after being blinded, his thereby improved "sight" spurs him to the most eloquent work of his career. His prayer and his final dialogue with Lear are extremely moving. (But why did the director place his "suicide" leap on the flat part of the stage when a six-inch "cliff of Dover" was available a few feet forward...
...serviceable little picture for the double-bill circuits. But blown up out of proportion in deference to the man who is now the Great Big Skipper, and yakked up out of believability by miles of comic relief, it has become a wide-screen campaign poster. One merciful antidote: smiling Cliff Robertson has been allowed by Director Leslie Martinson to play Skipper Jack with vigor, not vigah; there isn't a single hand-stabbing J.F.K. mannerism in sight...
...hawked their spectacular schemes, the Swedes worked quietly inside the temple itself. They probed the sandstone with diamond drills, measuring its strength. They charted its cracks and flaws. Finally they produced a carefully documented plan to cut the temple into chunks, lift it piecemeal to the top of the cliff and reassemble it-just as other workmen once cut up a European monastery, packed it in crates and shipped it home to be pasted together for a famed collector of antiquities, William Randolph Hearst. The cost will be a modest $36 million, one-third of which has been...
...weighing not more than 30 tons each. Some of the pieces will be split apart and the breaks joined later. Blocks that are weak will be held together by bolts. Cranes will lift them one by one and deposit them gently on beds of sand on top of the cliff, where they will be wrapped in plastic sheeting to protect their surfaces. When the lowest of the blocks arrive, they will be placed on a concrete foundation. The temple will be reassembled as accurately as possible and surrounded by a natural-looking wall of local sandstone...