Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew abroad is dignified, correct and, above all, distant, the gracious teatime and dinner companion of potentates and princes, ministers and maharajahs. Tall and tanned, he is meticulous to the point of having every last hair in place, even after stepping out of a minor gale. He has done his homework. In private talks and ceremonial functions, Agnew, from all available evidence, has performed flawlessly. Perhaps too flawlessly...
...much pride in his rationality. Yet there is another side to the story and to the man. Obscured by his veneer was an underlying, undeniable warmth of personality. The cold rationalist by day loved parties and lively talk, and he danced endlessly at night. He was the favorite dinner companion of the Kennedy wives. In public, he would berate an imprecise subordinate: "Don't give me your poetry." In private, he read poetry avidly...
Other Russians with the same sort of quasi-official authority have been making similar soundings in other capitals recently. In Washington, the correspondent for Israel's influential newspaper Ha'aretz has suddenly become the lunch companion most in demand among Soviet journalists. Around the table, the conversation turns inevitably to the same subject: the chances of resuming diplomatic relations, which were severed by Moscow at the climax of the 1967 Middle East War. To calm Russia's Arab allies, Soviet officials at the United Nations denied last week that any soundings were being made at all. Actually...
...Australian father takes his two children for a picnic in the country. Minutes later he commits a lurid and unmotivated suicide. The teen-age girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother (Lucien John) abruptly find themselves at the mercy of the outback, their only companion a sputtering portable radio. Ironies thereupon crowd the air like static: the instrument crackles with irrelevant news of the world while the two urbanized refugees fight elemental dread...
...PRODUCTION is well acted; movement is highly disciplined, line readings are tightly paced. The dialogues between Bernie Duffy, as the high school student who doesn't like cars, and Clara Sztucinski, is his crippled companion, are consistently the best in the production. They create a sense of two people too alike to not understand each other, yet too unsure of themselves to do anything but play games...