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...best actor of the three, his is in some ways the most disappointing performance. Caught between love and ambition, Leicester serves both queens, only to betray each in turn; petty and cowardly though he is, his waverings also make him a tragic figure. Unfortunately, Hornblower chooses to portray the earl as a supercilious and excessively obvious double-dealer whose inward writhings cause him more annoyance than pain. Hand on hips, he delights in running his tongue over his lips in a gesture that reduces him to the level of a snake. It's hard to imagine what either queen could...
...company's public affairs chief, asked to buy 30 minutes of WNBC-TV's air time to reply. The station turned him down, citing an NBC rule against paid statements on "controversial" issues, a policy supported in a 1973 Supreme Court decision. Instead, WNBC-TV News Director Earl Ubell offered Mobil two or three minutes of free time on the evening news program, to be followed by a few more minutes of questioning by Trotta. Company executives declined, arguing that the time would not be enough "to reply to five nights of one-sided editorializing totaling some...
...James Earl Carter Jr., the oldest of four, had a typical rural boyhood. When he was not at school he was working in the fields. His home lacked electricity and running water. Initiative was esteemed. At nine, he bought five bales of cotton with money he had saved from selling peanuts and stashed them away. A few years later, he sold them for enough profit to buy five old houses in Plains and became a landlord. The venture made him a confirmed capitalist...
Father James Earl Sr. was a resourceful farmer and small businessman, who was strict with his children and devoted to community mores, including racial segregation. But Carter's mother was something else: one of those doughty and durable women that the South produces among both races. It was "Miss Lillian" (pronounced locally Lee-yun) who taught her son to aim for something higher than what Plains could offer. A registered nurse, she supported the family during the Depression when farm prices plummeted. Instead of letting her children talk at mealtimes, she urged them to read at the table. She treated...
...start out with splintering metallic rumbles that build up steam and reach a feverish, hand-clapping pitch by the ends. None of which would mean anything without the hooks, which are especially abundant and prehensile. In fact, it seems Bowie has subordinated everything to them. The musicians play anonymously (Earl Slick's keening feedback on the beginning of "Station To Station" notwithstanding), and there is little of the musical richness of earlier albums. There aren't even any strings or saxes. What Bowie has done is to concentrate his energies on creating various succinct and catchy integrations of riff...