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...flight soared into the second day, the oxygen pressure slowly moved upward-and optimism soared at Houston command. "The morning headline," broadcast Kraft to the astronauts, "says your flight may splash down in the Pacific on the sixth orbit." Replied Conrad: "I'm sorry to disappoint them...
This latest morsel from the previously published-only-in-Paris works of Olympia Press will disappoint smut lovers everywhere. It is at best a poor scraping from the bottom of the Candy barrel. Mamie Mason, Harlem hostess with the mostest, sets out to solve the Race Problem in her own forthright fashion by aiding and abetting two-tone cohabitation as widely and as often as possible among her vast collage of acquaintances. As a single, running, off-color joke, the novel turns out to be neither very funny nor very dirty. The level of its humor is set by Negro...
HENRY IV, PART I & HENRY IV, PART II (Caedmon). There are those who believe that Falstaff is the greatest comic character in English literature, and these recordings will not disappoint them. Anthony Quayle's voice combines the tavern-soaked grossness of "fat Jack" with the agile wit and arrogant flair of Sir John. Michael Redgrave as Hotspur seems at times to get only false teeth into the part...
Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro might disappoint you if you are expecting a movie on the order of his Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, or even perhaps Yojimbo...
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning. Day of Drums will disappoint those who have felt compelled to save the "real Kennedy" from his image. The United States Information Service does not show the "man behind the myth," the "unknown JFK," or the "Kennedy without tears." It declines even to give a balanced assessment of his administration. Rather than penetrating the public image that Kennedy cultivated while he lived, this film refines and embellishes it by using his death--"the day of drums"--as a dramatic contrast with his "years of lightning...