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Both Giles and Harvard refused to comment this week on whether he is still a candidate for the curatorship. But a close Giles associate, Knight Foundation President Hodding Carter III, said Wednesday that Giles is still being considered...
...tortured Abner Louima. If that isn't enough, contrast this Shaft's vulgar behavior toward a black woman in the film's only romantic sequence with the original Shaft's tender, though hardly exclusive relationship with his girlfriend. The new Shaft is neither a heroic knight errant nor a sex machine; he's just another ego-tripping homicidal misogynist...
Blaine was more vulnerable in other areas of venality. Variously, "The Plumed Knight," or "the Continental Liar from the State of Maine," he had so many profitably shady connections and such an improvisational way with the truth that Mark Twain, who joined the Mugwumps (apostate Republicans supporting Cleveland), allowed that Blaine's skill at lying had overwhelmed him, saying "I don't seem to lie with any heart, lately...
...teamed with the third great theater knight, Ralph Richardson, in two modern mystery plays: David Storey's Home, in which two old gents chat thrillingly into their dotage; and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, with Gielgud superbly seedy as a down-on-his-art writer. Yet his first love was Shakespeare, and one imagines the feeling was mutual. In the celebratory book Sir John, Guinness recalls a dinner in the '30s when Gielgud dithered about which of many projects to do next. One chum finally said, "Oh, shut up, dear! Just stick a crown on your head...
...company bidding for Nabisco 11. Like jambalaya, gumbo and etouffee 13. It conducted the first-ever mail-in primary 14. Be next to 15. Americans lined up for it in '73 and '79 16. "Son of" in Saudi Arabia 18. __ of Court (responsible for British legal education) 19. Where Knight time has still not come to an end 22. Hersey's bell town 25. Cautionary road sign 26. T. rex now on display in Chicago 29. Roman city that's the site of a frantic salvage operation 31. What Rick is expecting from Hillary 33. Western moniker 34. Throw...