Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MURDER ON THE Orient Express is the biggest-budget British film ever made, but compared to American blockbusters like The Great Gatsby and Cleopatra, it is an understated film. Europeans don't have the same problems reconciling big money with culture that American artists and moguls use as an excuse for avoiding excellence. Give Fellini and Resnais and Bunuel more money to make a film than they ever dreamed of any they make films that are, indeed, different from their earlier, low-budget works, but films of undoubted high quality. In America, the big money goes only to those directors...
...most unpopular man in the Indian government-not only because of the corruption charges, but also because he had successfully used strong-arm measures last year in breaking a national rail strike. At week's end, a crowd of government employees in New Delhi initially refused to express formal grief at the news of Mishra's death. Only after the main speaker, Jayaprakash Narayan himself, remonstrated with the group and declared that "no sane person can tolerate" such acts of terrorism did the audience reluctantly support the traditional resolution of condolence...
...that line, he gave the show away. For Benny was never a great creator. Even on TV his gift was that of an actor who wraps himself in other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic...
Died. John Gordon, 84, crusty, Scottish-born editor in chief of Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express; in London. In large part because of Gordon's news judgment, the circulation of the Sunday Express, which was about 560,000 when he became a co-editor in 1928, had grown to over 4 million by the time of his death. In 1940, let down by a contributor, Gordon himself dashed off a column that was such a success that he kept it up for over 30 years. His weekly "Current Affairs" sometimes tilted at members of Britain's royal...
...Lippmann began a journalistic career that spanned the succeeding six decades. Muckraker Lincoln Steffens came to Harvard to find an assistant, asking professors and members of the just-graduated class for "the ablest mind that could express itself in writing." Lippmann was his choice...