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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clear Day she plays a dual role as Daisy Gamble, a low-brow chick who gains highborn chic when she is hypnotized. With a nod of her head, she goes from side-of-da-mouth to elegant eighteenth century English, from bubble-gum popping to a low purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara...
...Catholics not to condemn but to "promote what is morally and artistically good" in movies. The ranks of Legion reviewers, previously dominated by a coterie of middle-aging Catholic college alumnae, were expanded to include knowledgeable lay and clerical film buffs, ranging from Jesuit professors of communications arts to English teachers, writers and admen...
Heroma is a raw little minority report on the narcotics trade in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, made by a group of talented Puerto Ricans. Spoken in Spanish with English subtitles (plus a peppering of Anglo-Saxon vulgarisms), the film is mainly distinguished for acting untouched by the naive semiprofessionalism that blights many a small-budget movie. Topping the cast is Jaime Sánchez as Chico, a well-to-do but restless cat who sums up his birthright by stating his birthplace: "102nd and Lexington...
...swing the general settlement, Shelburne was delighted to lift the lever out of Vergennes' hands. He agreed to recognize the U.S., and on Oct. 29, 1782, negotiations began on a semisecret basis -that is to say, the U.S. commissioners truthfully told Vergennes that they were talking with the English, but untruthfully told him that talks were stalled...
...accident. On Nov. 30, 1782, the preliminary articles, which for all practical purposes constituted the final document, were signed. Vergennes was promptly informed. He was stunned. But when he protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety," and then subtly sank the needle: "The English, I just now learn, flatter themselves they have already divided us. I hope this little misunderstanding will therefore be kept secret, and that they will find themselves totally mistaken...