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...hard ironies. Among the best in this consistently rewarding collection: the wistful Now That I've Taken My Life, in which a man who gave up a free and happy ivory-tower existence, "pleading reality," tries to convince himself that he likes "solid-gold women" and his hollow new success...
...multimillionaire, Robert F. Kennedy grew up to know the lush green lawns of Palm Beach, the snowy slopes of Vermont, the blue skies and waters of Hyannisport. He reached manhood with the barest notion of what life is like in the slums, and with scant concern for the hollow-eyed and hungry who people them...
...story of the brightest star of the musical theater; songs by Cole Porter, Gershwin, Coward; Julie Andrews in the title role; all under the direction of Robert Wise, who made such box-office hits as The Sound of Music and West Side Story. Actually, the production is a hollow, frantic caricature-The Character Assassination of Gertrude Lawrence as Performed by the Inmates of Madame Tussaud...
...things that are keeping General Eisenhower alive--he wants to see the Republicans win and wants to go to the wedding. It's not a great anecdote under the best of cirumstances, but a nervous Nixon phrased it with particular tastelessness Monday and his over-quick laugh tang hollow against the silence of the audience...
This takes inconceivable effort, since making Shaw dull is rather like making sex dull. Shaw's words sing; this cast singsongs, and a woodpecker on a hollow log would have produced a more tuneful score. Richard Kiley's Caesar has faint, weary traces of Shaw's philosopher-king, but Leslie Uggams is a drowned kitten of the Nile without a hint of incipient regality...