Word: dirks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Event Ten: 100-yd. Breaststroke--1. Koji Mishimura, Army, 57.37. 2. John Christensen, Princeton, 58.49. 3. Kent Whitaker, Dartmouth, 58.74. 4. Alex Rae-Grant, Yale, 58.89. 5. Dirk Crandell, Cornell, 59.48. 6. Paul Mansfield, Drexel, 59.52. 7. Chris Judge, Fordham, 59.77. 8. Frank Polefrone, Bucknell...
...field workers, 21 armed guards, 132 vehicles and ten mobile TV units, the party staged some 500 rallies and spent an estimated $5.5 million, which is a lot of money, since Namibia has only 412,000 eligible voters. Under the D.T.A.'s white leader, a wealthy rancher named Dirk Mudge, 50, the party shrewdly maintained that it stood for independence from South Africa and an end to apartheid...
...Dirk Bogarde, looking natty and nerve-worn, is exactly right as the fissured Hermann, a chocolate manufacturer whose business has turned bitter. Explaining how he inherited the family business, he says, "My mother's dowry was her weight in gold coins. They proved to be chocolate. My father died of grief, my mother of diabetes...
SELF-CONSCIOUS. Dirk Bogarde's Herman Hermann watches every move he makes through an invisible movie camera. He's constantly framed by windows, doorways, odd rectangular objects. He poses, preens, acts for us. About to make love to his moist, hefty wife, he makes sure that the door of his room is wide open, glancing down the hall where the camera sits. But he never looks into it. He's too professional. Or maybe it isn't there. Or maybe it is. Or maybe this is a screwy movie...
...feeling for intricate vision detail to match Stoppard's verbal relish. Match this pair with Nabokov, with his witty, self-conscious prose and playful pokes at literary form and point-of-view, and you have a threesome so finely tuned that they practically exclude the rest of us. Add Dirk Bogarde, one of Britain's most mannered, fastidious actors, and it's no surprise Despair is impenetrable...