Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Watts, in the Post, said Kopit "appears more preoccupied with achieving oddity of approach than with what he is saying by suggestion," and thought the play "has a self-consciousness in its studied madness that can be unfortunately tiresome." James Davis (Daily News) shrugged the show off as "a...
(3 of 10) veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel near Acapulco, in Mexico. The hotelkeeper, the Widow Maxine Faulk, played by Bette Davis, is a hostage to devil-in-the-flesh sensuality. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal), a defrocked clergyman turned tourist guide, is spooked by guilt. As...
In Marine! Burke Davis has written a gaudy, bloody, gung-ho account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel...
Unproved Case. In 1951 Puller roused a national storm by saying that the U.S. was turning soft and by suggesting that fighting men might better be trained on beer and whisky than on ice cream. (He himself was never a man to refuse a drink-a fact discreetly withheld by...
In 1955, over his roaring protests, Lieut. General Chesty Puller was retired from the corps on the ground that he was suffering from high blood pressure. "I hate like hell to go," said the old war horse, and went home to the Virginia village of Saluda. where he now lives...