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Like Moses, Douglas leads the way but never settles in the promised land. Thirty miles from it, as he descends by rope from a cliff, the widowed bride coldly cuts the cord and he plummets to the rocks below. A wooden slab marks his resting place, and the troupe troops on to Oregon...
...vita that is incredibly dolce in contemporary Venice. "My wealth," he announces, "is no more a pleasurable object of contemplation than my navel." To enliven his ennui, he decides to bring Volpone to life, casting himself in the title role. For his unfaithful servant, he hires an unemployed actor (Cliff Robertson) who has always wanted to play the palazzo...
...rebellion by miscasting the rest of the actors. Dave LeMire (Colonel Redfern) played a representative aristocrat. He used a pursed-lipped, hoity-toity voice as phoney as his old age lines. The result was that the contest between classes and between generations wasn't credible. Chris Hart (Cliff Lewis) is a dewy-eyed boy instead of a babysitting adult. He made Jimmy Porter sound vaguely professional...
Under the flags stood Boston's most faithful counterdemonstrators, the Polish Freedom Fighters, brandishing a "Bomb Hanoi" placard. One of them, who gave his name as Cliff Arneson and said he had just gotten out of the service, mounted an overturned trash can and began haranguing people about the necessity to fight in Vietnam "to preserve our freedom and theirs...
...while the top prize in last week's East African Safari was only $3,000. Granted, the driver who wrestles a skittish racing car around a track at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. faces certain hazards - but he doesn't have to worry about sailing off a cliff. Or colliding head-on with an elephant. Or being attacked by the spectators...