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...latest of these is Tom Courtenay, who plays the young delinquent hero in the film version of Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. He looks like malnutrition itself-hollow cheeks, hair too long, sallow skin that seems to harbinger a tic. He might well have been plucked off the streets by some director casting a social-protest story. He was raised, as a matter of fact, in the slums of Hull. But he was educated at the University of London, trained by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and apprenticed...
...many Ghanaians, the accusations had a hollow ring. Foreign Minister Adjei, 47, has been a staunch supporter of Nkrumah for years and is a leader of the moderate fringe, which occasionally has urged sense on Ghana's erratic leader. By contrast, Adamafio, 40, is a ruthless opportunist who clawed his way to the top on the strength of his anti-West, pro-Communist inclinations. His main public activity was to dream up new, adulatory names for Nkrumah; but for weeks, rumors of his plans to overthrow the Redeemer had swirled through Accra...
...full of perfectly stuffed birds of paradise, those rare and fabulous creatures about which it was once believed that because they were too beautiful for earth, they had no feet and so must fly steadily until the moment of their deaths. The birds-which, among other things, represent the hollow, doomed magnificence of British India-are the kind of florid symbol delighted in by artful writers but often ruinous to a novel; the reader is so taken with the symbolic whipped cream on top that he leaves the nourishing narrative jello beneath untasted. Skillfully, Author Scott mixes the two richly...
...Hollow Boom. Apartments accounted for barely 10% of the new housing market a decade ago, but this year will make up almost one-third of it. Greater Chicago and Southern California are among the areas where in 1962 for the first time more apartments than houses will be built. This is one trend that does little for the U.S. economy, because an apartment usually requires far less concrete, lumber and glass than a house. The average apartment costs 57% as much to build as the average single-family house. And because apartments usually go up in well-developed areas, they...
...House of Commons was crammed to the doors last week as Harold Macmillan faced the grimmest hour of his political career. Grey-faced and hollow-cheeked, the Prime Minister sprawled on the government's green leather front bench while Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell called for a censure motion against the government. Gaitskell demanded Macmillan's resignation and an immediate general election, argued that Macmillan's purge of Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd and 15 other Conservative ministers "was the most convincing confession of failure which could have been offered by the government." Liberal Party Leader...