Word: finches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief political benefactor, Richard Kleindienst, who engineered Mardian's appointment as Barry Goldwater's Western field representative in 1964 and his similar job for Richard Nixon in 1968. Finally, Kleindienst, with Attorney General John Mitchell, got Mardian appointed general counsel under Secretary Robert Finch in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...fellow adapter, Critic Kenneth Tynan, those characters are a radical departure from tradition. "Usually," says Polanski, "Macbeth is played as an unpleasant bearded chap, Lady Macbeth as a nagging bitch-and both are middle-aged." By contrast, Polanski has given the roles to attractive young unknowns: Jon Finch, 28, and Francesca Annis, 25. The idea is to make them more sympathetic, and to make her power over him more plausible by stressing its sexual basis. Argues Tynan: "This way it's a more fascinating personal story of an ambitious couple, very much in love, in some ways rather vulnerable...
...such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing the actors with water. Far from complaining, the youthful cast seemed caught up in his energy. When Jon Finch was not starring as Macbeth, he would hop on a horse and ride in the background as an extra...
...election strategy and party power are so completely closeted in Nixon's White House. The President re-emphasized that last week on television by declaring: "When I'm the candidate, I run the campaign." Nixon is expected to select an intimate, such as John Mitchell or Robert Finch, as his 1972 campaign director instead of relying on the G.O.P. chairman...
...tourists strolling among the Christmas trees on Washington's Ellipse near the White House seemed to recognize the elusive Tricia Nixon (dubbed "the Howard Hughes of the White House" by the mystified press) and her longtime beau, Edward Finch Cox. At least one who did spy Tricia, though, saw more than blonde hair and dimples: Tricia was wearing a diamond on the ring finger of her left hand. Would she announce her engagement to the son of New York Socialites Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Cox over the holidays? Her mother Pat Nixon would only...