Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of winning a military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...
After Washkansky died, the man who had made the transplant possible was despondent. Said Edward Darvall: "There was at least part of my daughter alive, and now it's all gone. I feel empty." (In fact, one of her kidneys, transplanted to Jonathan Van Wyk, 10, was still working well.) Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, whose own heart-transplant operation had failed two weeks earlier, expressed his sorrow, then added: "However, I believe that the operation performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard represents a great step forward...
...takes her to a hotel and begins the affair in earnest. As the summer drifts on, Benjamin's parents begin to worry about his listless manner. They arrange a date with an old school chum (Katharine Ross) who has but one fault: she is Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Benjamin confesses all, the girl runs back to campus, and her mother arranges a marriage of inconvenience in order to keep the couple apart. In the final reel, Benjamin revs up his psyche and his Alfa Romeo and heads for Santa Barbara to break up the wedding...
...title role, Hoffman is an original, likable actor whose bag of monumeital insecurities marks the truly assured comedian. As the vamp, Anne Bancroft is appropriately sly and predatory, and Katharine Ross, as her daughter, possesses one of the freshest new faces in Hollywood. But the screenplay, which begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama. Moreover, Director Nichols, perhaps affected by his stage experience, has given much of the film the closed-in air of a studio set. Like Nichols himself, The Graduate appears to be a victim of the sophomore jinx...
...does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses. He is a devoted family man, but he is so anxious to keep his personal life out of the public eye that he does not even list his wife and daughter...