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...final segment: "There has been a great harvesting of queens in our time." While all of the actresses portraying Henry's sundry wives are extraordinarily good, there are two standouts in the series. Annette Crosbie as Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is perhaps the finest. As the young Spanish princess, she is appropriately shy and frightened; she ages gently into the grand old Queen, beloved of her subjects and even in his deepening hysteria for a son, by her husband and King. Finally, we see her as a sick and aged woman, bewildered by events that...
...intellect have yielded such classics as The Naked Night (1953), The Seventh Seal (1956) and Wild Strawberries (1958). Of his more recent films, Persona is one of the most complex personal works in all of the cinema, and Shame and The Passion of Anna should be counted among his finest work. Every time Bergman makes a new film-and he makes one each year-enormous expectations are aroused...
...television speech last week took his case for entry into the Common Market to the British people. His approach, which was expressed more fully in a White Paper that he personally presented to the House of Commons, was a startling departure from the postwar British norm. Ever since their "finest hour" in the 1940s, the British have shied away from stirring rhetoric and appointments with history as if they were too drained by earlier exertions to cope with monumental actions or decisions...
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (81). To see a splendid revival of the finest play ever written by a U.S. dramatist ought to be a sufficient lure, in and of itself. O'Neill painted an enduring portrait of his own tragic family history, using the primary colors of love, anger and compassion. As the mother, Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a performance that is etched in the bloodlines of life...
Diamonds may still be a girl's best friend, but women are also developing an insatiable fondness for emeralds. Demand for the soft, veined, green jewels has risen so appreciably that prices have more than doubled in the past five years; the finest quality stones now fetch as much as $3,000 per carat wholesale, on a par with diamonds. What buyers do not know is that they are almost certainly, if unwittingly, contributing to the prosperity of one of the world's most lucrative-and bloodiest-illegal businesses. Some 90% of all emeralds come from Colombia, where...