Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing the Festival theme of cooperation between the arts to the hilt. "Invalid" will share its set with another mainstage extravaganza, Mozart and DaPonte's "Don Giovanni," performed by the Leverett House Opera Society. Jon Miller designed the set that will be used for both shows. His main concept of the design is that "both works spring from the Renaissance, even though they date from a good deal later, and I wanted to give that feeling. The Moliere has to be something light, with lots of doors and tricks, 'Giovanni' should be something quite different...
...frightening as she is sexy, Walter plays her part to the hilt, which in one case is at the end of a 10-in. blade. Eastwood, making his first directorial outing, has to chart a course through the holes in the plot. There are a couple of hackneyed moments (notably a nude love scene), but Eastwood displays a vigorous talent for sequences of violence and tension. He has obviously seen Psycho and Repulsion more than once, but those are excellent texts and he has learned his lessons passing well...
...White House more than I ever was when L.B.J. was President," he says. He also amply returns the compliment implicit in the President's interest in him. "You've got a great President here," he tells unquestioning White House aides. "You ought to support him to the hilt." When he sits with Nixon and a group of businessmen, he will drop in such phrases as "Under the President's effective leadership..." He recently told friends: "What I admire most about Nixon is his raw political guts. He's a very courageous President...
...have cards, and we intend to play them to the hilt," Nixon declared in an interview with a six-man panel of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
Laszlo Pasztor Jr. '73, chairman of YAF, said last night, that his group's evidence will come primarily from live testimony and six or seven cameras which shot still photographs. "We shall carry our prosecutions to the CRR up to the very hilt. Our rights were violated; we demand retribution," he added...