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...lesser characters, the four guests all do a creditable job, particularly Alden Watson as Richard Greatham. His style of controlled bewilderment and priggish dismay enlivens the potentially flat role of the conservative diplomat. Jill Abramson vamps madly in her part as the inane and brainless ingenue, but her squeaky voice, exaggerated walk, and batting eyes quickly become tiresome. Joanna Blum is convincing as the sophisticated woman-about-town who tries (to no avail) to pull the Bliss family out of their hopeless theatrics. She, like Abramson, has a formula of winking eyes and sleek walk which loses its charm after...
...based on the Raymond Chandler novel, with Elliot Gould playing Philip Marlowe. It dealt with an author untouched since Bogart's formidable version of the hero. Last spring United Artists opened the film at several locations across the country, avoiding the usual New York premiere. The critics reacted with dismay. "The truth is," Altman says, "that most of the reviewers across the country have the New York reviews to guide them." And so it bombed. Altman, furious that the promised New York premiere had been denied his film, managed to get it released again in the fall with...
Five years ago today, 400 police forcibly evicted 300 students from University Hall. The students, most of them members of Students for a Democratic Society, had evicted U Hall's usual occupants the day before, to the dismay of most of Harvard's faculty and alumni and probably most of its students as well. But the suddenness and brutality of the police bust forged a new student militance and a massive student strike. The bust and the strike served as a dramatic climax to ten years of Harvard history; and they changed the course of Harvard history, probably permanently. This...
...Kremlin would clearly have preferred a harsher punishment for Solzhenitsyn had he been less famous and more vulnerable, but exile had its political advantages. The author's deportation was unlikely to cause more than an intense but brief flurry of dismay at the 34-nation European Security Conference currently meeting in Geneva...
Solemn assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...