Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British, either through India or through the Russian Embassy in London, to the Chinese Communists." Thus, said Lucas, the Chinese Communists "knew in advance every step he proposed to take," and, in fact, entered the Korean conflict only "after being assured by the British that MacArthur would be ham strung and could not effectively oppose them." MacArthur had long since made similar charges. In 1956, he publicly charged that British Spies Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, who had defected to Moscow five years earlier, had been part of the pipeline to the Communists...
Boob tube, idiot box, or whatever else people call it, television is responsible for the bacon David Brinkley, 43, brings home, and the ham-on-wry commentator felt moved to pay homage to its glories. But what to say? "Television," he finally advised some University of North Carolina students, "is the only thing in the world that is punctual." People, planes and trains are late, he continued thoughtfully, but TV is on time. "It may be lousy, but it's on time...
Ansen's script is clever and pointed; his direction is imaginative even if his pace occasionally drags. Valerie Clark, whose pretty head is on the pillow most of the time, is a wonderful ham, and Roberta Braucher handles a delicate assignment well. Bina Breitner's lust didn't quite convince me, but Lance Lindabury's loving Daddy brought laughs even without lines. Larry Gonick is a patient and virile lover...
...undergoing the hectic but commonplace ritual of the evening rush hour. The downtown business district was filled with people walking and driving home from work. Suddenly the very earth cracked, roared and rolled. An amateur radio operator who was talking from his car to another radio ham in Seattle called out: "My God! What's happening?" The streets, he cried, were rippling like waves and the ground was pitching like an ocean. Streets split into gaping wounds, two of them 12 ft. deep and 50 ft. wide. Mrs. Jean Chance watched as "the earth started to roll. It rolled...
...cast's performance is the ribaldry Schwartz has injected. The greatest ham, and consequently the most enjoyable performer, is Walter Swap, who plays Hanswurst. He cavorts in five different disguises, and his impersonation of a crackly-voiced beggar woman in "I Beg of You" nearly steals the show. Sandra Robbins, as Columbina, sings the eighteenth century melodies beautifully, if a bit too softly, but she has trouble warming to the sex-ridden requirements of the twentieth-century script...