Word: hithering
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...Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished sheepman; Boldwood (Peter Finch), a strange, eroded landowner of whom people whisper, warns Bathsheba's servant girl, that "he has no passionate parts"; and Troy (Terence Stamp), a seducer-soldier who has his way with any lass who meets his come-hither eyes...
...Shakespeare's sophistry, Timothy Mayer has added gimmickry and faddistry, carefully avoiding the problem of how to clarify and dramatize the play's hard theological core. Putting the play and the characters in modern dress has its dividends. Angelo gets a laugh when he says "Call him hither" into an intercom, and Lucio gets one when he lights his cigarette with a votive lamp. In short, Mayer has filled his ample trickbag with modern props to use when things get slow, which is very often...
...French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins to talk...
...with two heads. Here, one head belongs to Bob Hope, the other to Phyllis Diller, and Wrong Number demonstrates what a pair of fine stand-up comedians have to do to stretch out an idea that might comfortab'y fill four minutes of prime time. The body hustled hither and yon to take up the slack belongs to Elke Sommer, cast as a European sex queen who suffers an attack of artistic integrity midway through her umpteenth Hollywood bubble bath. Sensibly, she leaps out of the suds and heads straight for the north country to find peace...
...French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins to talk...