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Everything about The Horse's Mouth is deft, and much of it is truly remarkable. Guinnesss wrote the screenplay himself--basing it, of course, on Joyce Cary's novel--and this, certainly, is worthy of some note. The minor characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie...
...Other Reason. Debussy did not start his first important work-the Prelude a I'Aprés-midi d'un Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began...
Here Mike Bassett flipped to Hobie Armstrong, who handed off to Bill Taylor on a double reverse. Taylor sprinted for a few yards, and then lateraled to Mike Bassett on his left. This bit of razzle dazzle was good for 14 yards, and it was succeeded by an exceptionally deft run of Bill Grana's for 15 yards...
...preserving his policies. As usual, there was plenty of politics mixed in the oil. E.N.I, in its freewheeling way is much admired by the Nenni Socialists, whose displeasure could bring down Fanfani's precariously balanced Cabinet. Many Italian politicos are beholden to E.N.I., which under Mattei practiced a deft and munificent nonpartisanship. E.N.I, was one of the largest contributors to Fanfani's Christian-Democratic Party, gave generously to other political parties. Italian politicians who could find time to write reports for E.N.I, or give lectures to its officials were well paid. The man who handled many of E.N.I...
Died. William Francis McHale Jr., 42. TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Rome; in the crash of a private jetliner that also killed Italian Industrialist Enrico Mattei; near Milan, Italy (see WORLD BUSINESS). A deft and imperturbable New Yorker. Bill McHale served four years with the Coast Guard during World War II, studied at Harvard Business School, and entered journalism as a business writer for Barron's Weekly; he joined TIME in 1949, was a writer for two years and then became a correspondent serving successively in Washington, London and Beirut before going to Rome...