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...precious fancy that Nilsson manages to bring off because his crooning is so fancy-free. He has an original crooning style that is notable for its freedom from the Sinatra mannerisms that have intimidated a generation of pop balladeers. Gordon Jenkins' luxurious string-and-wind arrangements lend added gilt...
...filling the frame is to put something, anything-a sink, a vase-in the foreground of every shot, makes only occasional feints toward rescuing his star. However, there is a very clever, quietly brutal assassination scene. Some estimable players-Paul Scofield, John Colicos, J.D. Cannon-are present to lend support. There is even a certain obtuse symmetry to the carnage that closes the film. ∙Jay Cocks
...then, of course, there are the many instances in which the parents themselves are the source of that authority. Some situations readily lend themselves to a passive mode of murder. The most interesting case studies are those that involve children born with Down's Syndrome, popularly termed Mongolism because facial characteristics of those afflicted frequently resemble Mongoloid racial features...
Arguments in favor of recognition stated that it would oblige the Administration to bargain in good faith with Union demands, it would lend legitimacy to Union efforts among "more moderate" graduate students and it would insure the Union's permanency for at least the academic year...
...BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON, I seldom see you, seldom hear your tune," warbles Donovan, the unseen balladeer whom Franco Zeffirelli has enlisted to lend a whiff of flower power to this over ripe version of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Zeffirelli's work looks like a Sun day-school coloring book: everything is glowingly photogenic, including poverty, and leprosy. His St. Francis (Graham Faulkner) is a dewy, light-stepping youth who recruits the young men of Assisi the way a rock singer might round up a band. Their rebellion against the opulent hypocrisy they...