Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUPLE consists of two de-wived males who share an apartment. This latest entry by Author Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols is an astutely characterized study of marriages that are made in hell. Actors Art Carney and Walter Matthau manage to make incompatibility hilarious...
...policies but also as a skillful operator on Capitol Hill and a man of quiet reason. Johnson repays Rusk's loyalty. When critics asked why he did not reach into the lower echelons of the State Department for advice as Jack Kennedy often did, Johnson replied, "Hell, I go to Dean Rusk. He's my Secretary of State." Bundy, a Bostonian whose occasionally astringent manner has chilled more than a few acquaintances, still unnerves his Texas-bred boss a bit-he's just so-o-o Eastern. But he remains Lyndon's key White House...
...expert at detecting guerrilla camouflage that he could spot a Viet Cong position within seconds. He flew in low-like a "goosed gnat," in the words of one of his colleagues-marked enemy positions with smoke bombs, called in hot fighter-bombers, and then got the hell out of the way. The whole business scared him almost stiff. Said he: "Whenever that ground stuff came up at me, I was the most disjointed pilot in the world, trying to get away." But he went in lower, more often, and took more hits than any other U.S. pilot...
...like to shoot the guy that made the open fifth of the final chord into a major triad); songs of Thanks giving with the longest crescendi since Rossini stopped writing overtures; and a chorus of "Woe unto them that..." that reminds me of the brand of hell fire and damnation I thought you'd only hear when the brothers and sisters got happy in that one story wooden church, the one up the side street back home in Richmond...
...only Peter Skolnick (who directed this disaster) had injected some buoyancy, some life, some fun, some chutzpah-he could have saved the whole shebang. Then, what the hell, we wouldn't have cared about the squeaky horns, cracking tenors, dump jokes, flickering spotlights, missed cues. We wouldn't have minded when an actor got stuck in the safety-pinned curtain, or when another knocked over a teapot. Oh for goodness sake-even a little filth would have helped...