Word: leighton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mutilated brings on a pair of New Orleans floozies who have had a falling-out. One is a dead-broke wino (Kate Reid) who has been barred from her room in the Silver Dollar Hotel. The other (Margaret Leighton) has suffered a "mutilation"-one of her breasts has been removed. Reid has al ready carved this sad fact on the wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her own breasts, she has herself, of course, been carved up by life. Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this...
...grotesque phantasm of further mutilations follows. The Gnadiges Fraulein is a deaf ex-diva (Leighton) who loses one eye and then the other to the coca-loony birds of the Florida Keys, whom she battles for throwaway fish from incoming sloops. A cocaloony bird struts around on stage looking rather like a giant pelican with a Ph.D., and an Indian in a red, white and blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Sound and the Fury, in which Yul Brynner, in a wavy wig, is about as unrecognizable as the Faulkner novel on which the film is based. Margaret Leighton, however, wearing a Southern accent, can't (and shouldn't) be missed...
...department will offer courses beginning next September, but the program will take several years to develop, Dr. Leighton explained...
During nearly two decades at Cornell, Dr. Leighton has directed long-term investigations in which it was possible to determine the amount of psychiatric disorder in varying ages and among both sexes in whole population groups. He has sought to identify environmental factors responsible for much of the mental illness in his studies in New York City, in Nigerian villages, and in an entire county in Canada...