Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Falstaff is aware from the first that he is fighting a hard, even foredoomed battle for his Prince's love. The fat knight's persistence is that of the secret hero, not the apparent buffoon, and his final rejection is tragic rather than pathetic. Welles's performance, consistently underplayed except in Falstaff's scenes of self-parody or self-dramatization, neatly divides the character's surface and substance...
...natural to regret that Orson Welles has so much difficulty financing his filmmaking, for his poverty is ours. But it is hard to pity the man who made Falstaff. Film directors pay for control, and control marks every frame of this film: control over settings, performances, shooting, and meanings. Except for the Brattle's shoddy projection, it is hard to imagine this Falstaff better, or different. Still, it is pleasant to think that a few pennies of my $1.25 may eventually find their way into the pocket of Orson Welles. I hear he's saving up for another movie...
...strongest freshman crews in the East. Today's freshman race caused some concern before Ted Washburn's Harvard crew turned in its stunning performance against an even more highly-touted Northeastern boat last week. But now it appears that the Crimson freshmen are capable of handling any opponents, except perhaps Pennsylvania...
...Except for Harvard's big third inning and the Tigers' ninth inning rally, the game was largely a pitcher's duel. Peters and Fremuth each gave up only six hits. Clutch fielding in the fourth and eighth innings prevented potential Tiger threats from developing...
...since he has been in office. But, you say, he was there at the right time, when his country needed him. Really, he was a few years late. He remembered Tonkin a few years late. There is New Hampshire, Gene McCarthy said, and I am here before anyone else, except maybe the anti-war movement...