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Heston, whose movie career has consisted mostly of impersonating Great Heroes of History (Moses, Michelangelo, Ben-Hur), plays Gordon with a swaggering virility complicated by moments of fierce introspection. At times, though, his crisp British officer's manner lapses into a fair imitation of Jack Benny, as when he stands on the battlements with dervishes tumbling in on all sides and stiffly observes: "Well! Here we are!" By contrast, Olivier's Mahdi is a small masterpiece of single-minded religious insanity-the lambent black eyes never blinking, the measured voice conjuring up holy terrors from his private heart...
Trumpets blared. President Sukarno entered the Bung Karno Sports Palace and strode down the red-carpeted aisle with an honor guard of military police. He wore one of his crisp white uniforms with gold braid. On all sides of him, applauding ceremoniously, stood the 546 members of the Provisional People's Consultative Congress, his nation's highest legislative body. Ratna Sari Dewi, his lovely young Japanese wife, smiled down from the diplomatic box. When he mounted the platform and took his seat, three military aides appeared with orange juice, tea, and his eyeglasses. When he rose to speak...
...supplied by the Italian manicurist and a blossomy German blonde, De Funès stays right behind him all the way in a green Jaguar, which is tailed, in turn, by a furtive Austin-Healey carrying members of a rival gang. Always mirthful if not memorable, and photographed in crisp showroom color, The Sucker is funniest on side excursions, particularly a sopping wet and agreeably ribald robbers-and-robbers chase among the stony nudes of the Tivoli fountains near Rome...
...fringe. But since it is undeclared and slow to take shape, the Viet Nam war has hardly aroused the star-spangled fervor of World War II, when entire fraternity chapters tramped off to the post office to enlist en masse. The fight does not seem to have the relatively crisp delineations of Korea, where the United Nations underwrote the U.S. commitment and the Red Chinese invaders were clearly an enemy...
...chairman assured Defense Secretary McNamara: "I am not taxing you with this directly." He asked, nonetheless, how the Secretary viewed the question of prostitution in South Viet Nam. Crisp as always, McNamara replied: "I have not been to Saigon since Nov. 30. It was not a brothel then and I do not believe it is today." "You do not agree?" demanded Fulbright. McNamara emphatically did not. "I think we do a disservice to the Vietnamese and to our own men when we characterize it as such," he said quietly. "I do not mean to say there are not prostitutes...