Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settlement called No Name City sprouts at the peak of the Gold Rush. Population: male. In No Name dwell a miner, forty-niner (Lee Marvin), and his partner (Clint Eastwood). In time -great gaping wastes of it-along comes a blonde named Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). There isn't enough of Elizabeth to go around, so she shacks up with both partners. They make a beautiful triple until No Name is visited by some outsiders carrying a plague of respectability. Elizabeth succumbs, and only an hour and a half after the audience anticipates it, she settles down with...
...crowd, augmented by other opportunists, moved through downtown Montreal, burning and looting. Rioters stormed into the swanky Queen Elizabeth Hotel, then moved on to the nearby Windsor Hotel and nearly wrecked Mayor Jean Drapeau's newly opened restaurant. Expensive shops along St. Catherine's Street were hit by looters. On the city's outskirts, burglars went to work; one was shot dead by a doctor in his suburban home...
...through the eyes of contemporaries, from whom the future was concealed." With such handling, events achieve a fresh plausibility; Mary's behavior with Darnley and Bothwell, for example, becomes humanly understandable. Historic perspectives are foreshortened-a most notable defect in Miss Fraser's acerbic portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Nonetheless, the author marshals her evidence generously enough to allow for differing interpretations and briskly clears away the "cobwebs of fantasy" that have attached themselves to Mary's character over the centuries. Her Mary emerges neither as a Jezebel nor as a saint, but as a high-spirited woman...
...ELIZABETH C. LANDWEHR Long Beach, Calif...
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Out at her beach house, a free soul (Elizabeth Taylor) enchants a minister headmaster (Richard Burton), and causes his wife (Eva Marie Saint) a lot of grief in The Sandpiper...