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Maeve Kinkead plays Helen, one of the Countess's ladies in waiting and ultimately Bertram's wife. Her voice--an oddly throaty soprano--takes some getting used to, and she occasionally slips into unattractive facial expressions. But she accomplishes her main objective--making Helen's infatuation with Bertram and her long-standing fidelity to him even after he deserts her seem like more than calculated perverseness. One may not see what she sees in her beloved, but one accepts her devotion as genuine and is tempted to condone the questionable strategems she employs to win him back...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This poignant Czech drama hurls the question of universal guilt into a tranquil but non-occupied Slovakian village in 1942. The case concerns a Chaplinesque little nobody (Josef Króner) who, because he is an Aryan, is put in charge of the business, and the fate, of a shiningly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kami...
Fuddle Factory. Shriver's main presentation over, the storm clouds closed in. The Republicans, though polite enough in the hearing room, were aggressive in presenting their own poverty program on the House floor. Proposing to allocate most of OEO's functions to other agencies, G.O.P. critics denounced Shriver's agency as a "fuddle factory," claimed they could accomplish more with $200 million less. More flak came from an unexpected source, Democratic Representative Edith Green of Oregon, who disclosed that the cost of keeping a single boy in the Job Corps for one year is $9,120-substantially...
Absence of Avocado. What few Westerners remarked in Eastern Europe, however, were the things that are understandably absent, or purposely hidden from view. Traffic is scant even on the main streets of a capital (Rumania's automobile population is a mere 10,000 among 19 million citizens). Khrushchevian "goulash"-the consumer goods that all Eastern European governments now crave-is evident but still in short supply. Because of economic planning that, despite reforms, is still harshly controlled from the top, there may be a glut of pineapple and an absence of avocado. Shoe prices can soar as high...
Whether the showing of his harder and sterner side to more people has helped Humphrey to improve his "image" is hard to say. Humphrey's main problem is no secret: he is simply not so popular as Robert Kennedy. The confidential memorandum, after all, was precipitated by a Gallup Poll which showed that many more Americans would like to see (and could imagine seeing) Robert Kennedy than Hubert Humphrey as President of the United States...