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...utter, the actors man age a lively display of cocktail-party intelligence. Deborah Kerr is very pukka memsahib, and Barry Nelson displays his boyish charm, though the patina of age has begun to dull it. Frank Langella turns out to be the drollest character onstage with his stubborn macho pride in the size of his tail...
...ever since 1933, America has been living with a presumption of continuing emergency. A vanity in crisis survival has developed. Eisenhower, that least energetic of Chief Executives, talked about crusades; Johnson declared a war on poverty; the Kennedys thrilled over the technological gadgetry of crisis situation rooms that made macho solutions more tempt ing. The public has come to demand outsize Presidents, and then to be disappointed with them. Think of it: this man might have to press the button - though for nearly 30 years no one has pressed the button. Summit meetings have been dramatized as if the drawn...
...beer at each other. For the present they must content themselves with stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience. If you are not throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails, you are providing the impetus to do so. This community-sanctioned violence is a Macho Proving Ground. When a group of men can't flip a car over on its end, a girl in the crowd yells out, "You Pussies! You can't get it up." They then succeed; and this gutted vehicle, battered by their hands, is heaved into the sky for one brief...
...frosted bottle. Shapiro carries the scene to its ruthlessly realistic and quite hilarious conclusion. One guy, who seems to be just easing out of a day driving the No. 4 bus, decks a well-groomed type in a flowered shirt. The whole bar erupts, the virtues of malt and macho are duly celebrated, and the place looks like Pork Chop Hill at the fadeout...
Array of Problems. Perón himself had ordained Isabella's succession last fall when he chose her to run for Vice President and together they received 62% of the vote. There were doubts even then about her ability to lead the troubled country if he died in office. Many macho Argentines rejected the idea of a Presidenta. There was also dissatisfaction with her dance-hall background and limited education. "Personally, I am ashamed," said one retired general...