Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sicily, as veterans of the 1943 operation may or may not recall, was really just a million laughs. Like, haha, the pointy-headed captain (Dick Shawn) who went by the regulation book right down to the last typographical error. Or the takeover lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn? Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied...
...become successful at it. There are celebrated singers who cannot hold a note and artists who cannot grasp the essentials of form and color. Then there is Allen Drury, who happens to be a bestselling novelist without much talent for writing. But Drury has a special gift-a reportorial eye and ear for detail and atmosphere, an expertise about political power, and a seasoned newsman's disdain for cant...
...actually produced an intelligent picture at last. Based on the first half of The Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works...
...RACHMANINOFF'S CONCERTO NO. 2 and TCHAIKOVSKY'S CONCERTO NO. 1 (Mercury). With a matinee idol's face and a technique that suggests a man breathing on filaments of silk rather than pounding a piano, Janis stands up to his Billboard ratings with these favorites. His gift for phrasing is remarkable and very much his own, and Antal Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra balance his sweetness with spirited orchestral reading...
Murder in the Heart. On the surface, many Africans seem to be happy enough about apartheid. "We know what we have is ours, even if it is the gift of the white boss," says Ephraim Tchabalata, who has grown rich on a chain of dry-cleaning establishments and filling stations. The streets of the cities echo with the laughter of Africans, and the townships rock to the Beatle beat of guitars, strummed by young men wearing the cowboy hats that have become the latest rage. But all too often the smiles hide resentment. Says one African: "If I walk...