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...South Vietnamese fought for a provision recognizing the Saigon government as the only legitimate regime in the South, Gromyko sharply opposed it, while Chi remained silent. Gromyko later stalked over to Chi and asked: "Did your silence mean support of the South Vietnamese?" Chi stared at Gromyko with disdain, then turned his back. The provision was rejected...
...days passed, Byrne's choler mounted. With increasing disdain he denied prosecution motions to block revelation of the reports. The last of the studies finally arrived, and after reading the five-inch stack of documents, Byrne ruled last week that the bulk of them had to be turned over to the defense. Reason: They tended to prove the innocence of Ellsberg and Russo on at least some of the charges. According to the Government analyses, said, the judge, 13 of the 20 documents that Ellsberg and Russo released did not damage the national defense in any way-a seeming...
Scintillating pessimism and imperious disdain have always been Vidal's stock in trade. But in two previously uncollected pieces he demonstrates a humane, empathetic mastery of so-called personal journalism. In "The Death of Mishima," he blends his own acute sense of mortality with a meditation on the significance of the Japanese writer's grandstand suicide in 1971. In the end, it is not Yukio Mishima's writings that impress Vidal but the romantic act of conditioning his body for death. Ritual suicide is not Vidal's own cup of tea, though he is in poignant...
Harrison has failed to produce a disciplined ball club in his years at Harvard. He has told the players time and again what they are doing wrong, but evidently he has been unable to make an impact. Harrison has an open disdain for Harvard and the Cambridge atmosphere and does not seem to communicate with his players. He said after Saturday's game that he thought the errors would be easy to correct, but that statement, in light of his record at Harvard, is certainly open to question. The sad thing about Saturday's game was that Harvard had more...
Much of the film is centered around the meteoric career of Churchill's father, Lord Randolph. Robert Shaw, with his twinkling arrogant eyes, angulating cigarettes, and expressions which flash between aristocratic disdain and hard calculation is a pleasure to watch. Anne Bancroft is serviceable as his wife, being required only to produce a variety of worried expressions to accompany such lines as, "Must you be...so hard on Winston, Randolph?" Almost every minor role--Pat Heywood as Winston's nanny Ian Holm as George Buckle, the Editor of the London Times, Anthony Hopkins as Lioyd George--is perfectly cast, although...