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...Reilly was the toast of Dublin pubs as an international rugby star who set touchdown records in the 1950s. As recently as 1970 he "slipped apologetically" out of a meeting of the board of H.J. Heinz's United Kingdom subsidiary, which he then headed, for one last fling on the field, joining the Irish national team in a match against England. Last week 37-year-old Tony O'Reilly established a greater claim to fame. He was picked by the parent H.J. Heinz Corp. (fiscal 1973 sales: $1.2 billion) as its president, thus becoming...
...many of those robbed and assaulted to press charges after police capture suspects. Since a large number of the suspects are teenagers, most people are reluctant to "get them into trouble." However, Hall says that many of these "youngsters" are not just good kids off on a one time fling. "We're dealing with some pretty hardened juvenile delinquents, a lot of them carrying knives and guns. They're not naive youngsters and we're not going to help them by letting them off easy...
...Richardson, an estimable actor back here for the fourth consecutive season, takes a valiant fling at the part. His "sword of heaven" soliloquy is neatly spoken, discreetly underlined by one horn, then a second horn, harp, and flute. But Richardson is most effective in finding humorous aspects in the role, such as when, on donning a monk's disguise, he mimies Friar Peter's rolling of the hands. (Shakespeare had already used the ruler-in-disguise device in Henry V, when the king wanders incognito among his troops just before the Battle of Agincourt...
...many of those robbed and assaulted to press charges after police capture suspects. Since a large number of the suspects are teenagers, most people are reluctant to "get them into trouble." However, Hall says that many of these "youngsters" are not just good kids off on a one time fling. "We're dealing with some pretty hardened juvenile delinquents, a lot of them carrying knives and guns. They're not naive youngsters and we're not going to help them by letting them off easy...
...Kodachrome" is Simon's fling at whimsy, and "American Tune" his cliche. His use of The Onward Brass Band on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" is a piece of self-indulgent authenticity which is barely necessary. There is a beautifully sung lullaby, "St. Judy's Comet," not really a lullaby at all, rather a hymn to the father who rarely babysits, and actually one of those rolling hills, green fields country songs with throwaway guitar lines. "Was a Sunny Day" seems obligatory, cute and Caribbean in music and tone -- even the phrasing approaches the West Indian lilt...