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This extreme right operates under Petros Garouphalias, and unites dedicated royalists with stragglers from the junta under the name of the National Democratic Union (EDE). As the owner of the nation's largest brewery, Fix, Garouphalias is a classic representative of the economic oligarchy in a small country...
...trying to imitate Groucho Marx. Kay Doubleday as the mother would make Mrs. Portnoy cringe, she is so solicitous. Sid Davis, as the uncle of the central character, Richard, should come across as a lovable man condemned by his own weakness from ever obtaining the woman he loves. George Ede makes him the back-slapping traveling salesman of a dozen stale farmer's daughter jokes...
...George Ede's Pozzo is probably the best-played role: simply because he is orthodox (i. e., he follows Beckett's intentions) the part is convincing, assured, and professional. But George Sheanshang as Lucky, Pozzo's bearer, presents a special problem. Sheanshang acts intensely and well, is properly demented, and has bestowed on his character just the right Marat/Sade touch. Yet because his buckskni leggings, his moccasins, his headband, his pigtails, and his blond fright wg make him look like an albino Apache, the spectre of Lucky-as-oppressed-Red-Man is aggressively and offensively present on stage...
CATCHER--Elston Howard is a .279 hitter. He is also about the best catcher around. Then there is Yogi Berra, who just loves world series. The Giants have Ede Balley, and he is great in the clutch, and a sewed-up version of Tom Haller. Give the Yanks the edge here...
...bishop's views led the London Times to ponder whether "an old person's life is less valuable than anyone else's." Its own answer: while it is not less valuable, "other considerations are more important." In a letter to the Times, former Home Secretary Chuter Ede reminded the bishop that his Clough quotation had been taken out of context-that the poet had really meant just the opposite. The lines that follow it in the poem, ironically titled The Latest Decalogue...