Word: marred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor errors and one major failure mar Eric Berry's Falstaff: The small things are almost petty, but they make a difference. To cite one only, Berry has been made up with eyebrows that appear perpetually raised and slightly turned up at the outside ends. Thus he looks always surprised and quizzical. Surely, Falstaff is at heart not a questioner: he cares not for the future, lives entirely in the present (Hal's first words to him are "What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day?") and accepts that present without surprise or query...
...contributions to Catholic charities. He is a Democrat, has an apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue as well as a sum mer home in Spring Lake, N.J. Coleman himself takes an almost personal pride in the market: "The fact that we have been able to maintain a continuous mar ket through all sorts of conditions, including the Depression, is the greatest thing anybody ever saw." But the best thing, says Specialist Coleman, "is that you can never tell when you get up in the morning what is going to happen." And sometimes before he can find out what...
...world's watering holes frequented by celebrities, he keeps forked tongue in cheek. In St. Anton, Austria, a ski resort, he wrote of the Shah of Iran's exwife: "On the slopes, Soraya still behaved like a queen, was especially careful not to let any spill mar her majesty. She also refused to queue up at the snack bar. But she had to turn democratic afterward. There was no way of beating the queue in front of the ladies' room.'' So great is his prestige that Film Producer Peter Bamberger says: "Obermaier has written himself...
...deficient in literary spooks-apart from Thome Smith's thanatipsy Topper. In a first novel that is both sepulchral and oddly appealing. Author Beagle sets out to make good the omission. His tale is a muted, wistful love story that takes tone and title from Andrew Mar-veil's wry lines To His Coy Mistress: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace...
Concluded the bishop: "The people of our colonies should be given a fair opportunity to choose between independence or statehood. The present condition in Puerto Rico is that Governor Muñoz Marín is, by his own will, imposing upon the people of Puerto Rico and on the Congress of the United States an independence which was never granted, and a 'voluntary association' which is absurd unless independence has been granted...