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...DENSE AND LUSH, curling its way through London alleys and along seedy docksides, in and out of dingy shops and smudged and broken windows, obscuring the face of Big Ben himself and wrapping around the skirts of chilled and hapless prostitutes...
Cukor stages the story well enough against lush Welsh landscapes, but there are very few openings for his usual flourishes of wit and romance. James Costigan's mechanical teleplay often italicizes plot developments; a second-half plot stratagem, in which Morgan fathers an illegitimate baby, comes across as crude turn-of-the-century melodrama. One also wonders why Costigan has not bothered to open up the play's naturally constricted action. When Morgan travels up to Oxford to take his exams, the audience expects to go with him: the Welsh boy's first encounter with upper-crust...
...sure, China has its imposing factories and impressive, lush communes to show off to visitors. But to wander into small urban streets or tiny rural villages is to discover what may come closest to the real China. It is a country with a long...
...young gentlemen of means packed steamer trunks and set off by luxury liner to sample the rich life on the Continent. The bon vivant strode around a stud farm discussing bloodlines and conjuring up breeding programs for the stallions of his fancy. He dined on Welsh rabbit at a lush country estate, pondering a new business deal with each course. Hobnobbing with titans of industry, he discussed ventures in pharmaceuticals, breweries and public relations...
...football scholarships overall, Paterno rarely recruited more than 25 players a year. By comparison, Oklahoma bestowed 40 to 50 scholarships a year before the new limits were imposed. Players point proudly to the absence of a jock aristocracy on the 27,000-student Penn State campus. There is no lush special housing for players; they live in regular dormitories, and curfews are virtually unknown. No player is allowed to lighten his academic load during the season, and some 94% of Penn State's footballers graduate on schedule after four years. Proclaims Paterno: "Football isn't everything...