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After the script, the most urgent problem is casting. Marilyn Monroe has expressed interest in the part of Cecilie, and there are fond hopes of acquiring Marlon Brando for the part of Sigmund Freud. Brando, after all, made his stage debut in I Remember Mama...
Bulgaria. Though he holds no official government job, Todor Zkivkov, First Secretary of Bulgaria's Communist Party, considers himself the Bulgarian Khrushchev and, like his hero, is fond of making trips into the countryside to pose as the peasants' folksy friend. In Zhivkov's case, the effect is diminished by monotone oratory and a repugnant personality. A onetime printer and World War II partisan leader, chunky Todor Zhivkov, 49. is cold, humorless and conceited. Under his leadership, Bulgaria has become the only European satellite which has successfully herded virtually all its peasants onto collective farms...
...Republican orators," said Kennedy, "are fond of saying that experience in foreign policy is the greatest issue in this campaign. I agree. But the issue is not merely the experience of the candidates. It is the experience which the entire nation has gone through in the last eight years. And what an experience it has been. Mr. Nixon is experienced in policies of weakness, retreat and defeat...
...book surprises no National Leaguer. Though he chews tobacco with the rest of the boys, Brosnan is one of the game's rarer types: he reads Rousseau and Nietzsche, puffs on a pipe, studies his fellows through owlish spectacles, and naturally is nicknamed "the Professor." He is fond of recalling how he once dumfounded a batter by declaring from the mound: "Us ne passeront...
...invasions of privacy occurs near the film's beginning. A sleek, beautifully spotted 200-lb. female snarls menacingly at an evil-looking black male who prowls through her hunting ground. They clash in what begins, apparently, as a murderous fight. Then the slashing softens to pawing and a fond chewing of necks. One hundred days later, the female gives birth to two kittens, one black, one spotted...