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...declaim passages from the pertinent play before he kills them. Besides Price, who is at his most enjoyably fulsome, the large cast includes a bounty of fine British players: Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Milo O'Shea, Eric Sykes and, as those viperous but ill-fated critics, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley and Dennis Price. The movie is bright and, a good deal of the time, quite funny. It is farce as broad as Shaftesbury Avenue, but its high spirits are not entirely consistent with the great gobs of gore that...
...million tons from Persian Gulf fields up the Red Sea to the port of Eilat. The southern part of this supply line has never been really safe, however. That was demonstrated in 1971, when a small group of fedayeen armed with bazookas attacked the Israel-bound Liberian tanker Coral Sea as it passed through the ten-mile-wide strait of Bab el Mandeb (Gate of Tears). The attack prompted an audacious -and secret-Israeli countermove...
President Nixon recently rose from an elegant dinner of pompano at a restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla., paused next to a customer who was deliberating over various expensive meats on the menu, and advised: "It's patriotic to eat fish." A few days later, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns amplified on the Nixonian diet. "I think it would be a good idea," declared Burns, "if we had a meatless day once a week." His suggestion: buy more cheese...
Evidently, Hoving's style grates on the art world today; the euphoria of the '60s is over, and the acceptable tone is more cautious. Great museums-and the Met is one of the world's greatest -are, and should be, conservative organisms. They grow slowly like coral reefs, each polyp a work of art, some submerged, and others exposed as the tides of taste fluctuate. They represent a store of evidence about the past that is the indispensable raw material of cultural history. Above all, they are about interaction - between, among other things, "major" and "minor" works...
...Coral Gables...