Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added a comic flavor to this 4½-hour Freudian opus that the somber-spirited playwright never never intended. However, O'Neill's innate theater sense saves all but the silliest lines, and the playing of effulgent Geraldine Page and her Actors Studio cohorts is a delight to behold...
...Denegotiation." Wilson's most reassuring message was that he unequivocally supports NATO as "the center of our defense policy in Europe." To the delight of the Defense Department, which has long tried in vain to persuade Britain to build up its chronically inadequate ground forces on the Continent, Wilson argued that Britain could well afford a strong army if. as he proposes, it were to eliminate its nuclear strike force-"the so-called independent, so-called British, so-called deterrent...
Adding just the right whiff of Gallic is indestructible Charles Boyer, a delight to watch as he runs a school for would-be grooms, whose current pupil is Ricardo Montalban, the runner-up in the match for Hope's millions. High point in Boyer's my-fair-laddie crash course: instruction by the master himself in the art of nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario...
...most of Cairo remains the same: close, crowded and cacophonous with hard-pressed auto horns. In Imbaba, on the west bank of the Nile, camels streaked with henna still plod unknowingly toward the slaughterhouse, and gully-gully men delight bright-eyed, brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign...
...comedy is every it as puerile as it is absurd. The actors, a competent troupe, do their best to cope with the interminable ranting and moral posturing; one of them, Edward Vaddy, is ultimately successful: he plays the role of the young rebel's scoffing uncle, and takes great delight poking fun at all the nonsense which that young man pouts...