Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building the character of Margo Channing even where the script is most bare. A star at the peak of her adult career, she is torn by suspicion and self-doubt, the products of fading youth. What emerges is a sensitive, mature woman equipped with an actress's command of gesture and expression. Murray handles her songs and dance routines with poise and vitality, but more important, never loses a grip on the character she has created. Her directorboyfriend (Steven E. Kaplan) also acts and sings competently, but the mechanics of the script prevent him from becoming an equally interesting personality...
...addition, the committee staff said that part of the cost of other improvements should be counted as taxable income by Nixon. For example, at Key Biscayne, a concrete shuffleboard court was destroyed to make room for a Secret Service command post. It could have been replaced by one of equal quality for $400. Instead, the General Services Administration spent $2,000 for a much more elegant terrazzo court. The staff decided that Nixon should be taxed on the $ 1,600 difference...
...involvement with the planning and execution of all military matters before the war, that simply did not wash. Elazar-who promptly tendered his resignation along with Major General Eliahu Zeira, the Chief of Military Intelligence, three of Zeira's top assistants and the chief of the southern regional command-declared that he had not been given "a fair deal." How could the commission blame him for not calling up the reserves and not blame Dayan, who operated on the same information as he? "One can only conclude," Elazar went on, "that the commission did not apply the same yardstick...
...Lucas go up in the sort of gorgeous ritual blaze of self-destruction that besets Southern-Gothic houses in Southern-Gothic novels. But Martha and Lucas qualify, in Miss Douglas' phrase, as "celebrators of life"-and so does she, dramatizing with all the reason and passion at her command the bland and heinous modern crime of burying one's ancestors before they are dead...
...barber who joined the NLF when he learned that the Saigon government was encouraging men to grow their hair long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than it should, since Rubin at his subtlest is pretty elephantine), that these and other people's interaction is building towards a catastrophe: the destruction of Buon Yun and the American...