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...FITNESS AS TO CRAFT, HEALTH AND LIFE. Breath control is essential. I tried to persuade old Charles Laughton of that when he told me he was going to do Lear. He asked if I could give him any advice. I said, "Yes, I can, you fat, old s.o.b. [pronounced sob]. You have a large estate in Norfolk. I've seen it, not that you ever invited me to it, dear boy. I was catty. You have a large estate with an extensive hillside. Every morning I want you to climb that hillside, and shout out the lines." Well...
...awful situation") is faster and perhaps more tongue-twisting; but the Lord Chancellor's song is the Moby Dick of patter songs, the masterpiece all the rest led up to or away from. Singing the Lord Chancellor's song is the equivalent, for a Savoyard, of Hamlet or Lear for a Shakespearean. The lyrics are a juxtaposition of complete irreverence ("the black silk with gold clocks") with a sense of heightened reality and absurdity characteristic of real nightmares...
...rising on the pop charts as well. This Christmas he is opening his own auberge, Chez Paul, in Sun Valley. Next May he will open a million-dollar discotheque in Vegas. His business headquarters are in New York and Los Angeles, and he flies between them in his Lear Jet. From his combined enterprises, Paul can gross up to $10 million a year-depending on how hard he wants to work...
...thousand questions about the debts owed by the citizen to the state and vice versa press wordlessly on the action. Roberts Blossom is a tremendous Hamsun, a man who sees the world narrow but himself whole. Unpitiable and pitiless, Hamsun retains to the end the stature of King Lear before his arteries hardened...
...number of State Department officials, as well as some American allies at the U.N. Last week Ivor Richard, the British ambassador to the U.N., chastised Moynihan in a speech by implicitly comparing him with a shoot-from-the-hip Wyatt Earp, a vengeful Savonarola and an angry King Lear raging amid the storm. Moynihan was furious and decided that between criticism from the State Department and from U.N. diplomats, he had had enough. Kissinger urged him to stay. Said the Secretary: "He has done an excellent job. I have absolutely no reason to replace him." The White House later stated...