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Macmillan's departure coincides with a low point in the fortunes of his Conservative Party. Yet most of the goals Macmillan set himself on entering 10 Downing Street were resoundingly achieved. Since succeeding luckless Anthony Eden after the 1956 disaster of Suez, Macmillan has aimed at 1) recementing the Anglo-American alliance, 2) easing the cold war, 3) freeing the African continent, and 4) obtaining Britain's entry into the European Common Market...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is a wan retracing by Playwright Edward Albee of Carson McCullers' dark fable about the strange and obsessive attractions of love. Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and Michael Dunn, a malapert actor-dwarf, are locked in this luckless triangle of yearning and rejection...
...Broadway THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is a wan retracing by Playwright Edward Albee of Carson McCullers' dark fable about the strange and obsessive attractions of love, with Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and Michael Dunn, a malapert actor-dwarf, locked in a luckless triangle of yearning and rejection...
...describes the extracurricular torture that goes into the training of the dogs who accompany the stonehearted hunters. Not content with killing for the pleasure of useless killing, often leaving wounded birds and animals to die a lingering death, these "sportsmen" must inflict carefully planned refinements of agony on the luckless pooches who are to be their helpers...
...they offered women who would ahunting go, Abercrombie's idea of female sporting wear was to shrink down a man's khaki shirt, slack off the seat of the trousers, and add a veil to the sun helmet. Part of Margaret Macomber's hostility to her luckless husband must have been her feeling that she looked awful...