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...plot is as spare as the dialogue, and it never totally unravels. After six years of teaching at an American university, Teddy, a philosophy professor (Michael Craig), brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to North London to meet his widowed father, a bachelor uncle, and two younger brothers. An amoral crew with the ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm...
...cleaning up, Lenny for his stable of tarts, and Joey for lovemaking. But after the agreement, the old man is invaded by sheer panic: "She'll use us, she'll make use of us, I can tell you! I can smell it!" Yet will she? Vivien Merchant ends her evocatively feminine performance with the elusive hint of a smile. The secret is as safe with her as with Mona Lisa...
...true actor should be, he is an interpretive artist, not a personality merchant." For a major star, he is unique in lacking idiosyncrasies, ranging without trick or mannerism or telltale signature from classical heroes to contemporary antiheroes. A gaunt six-footer, he looks like a fine-grained, graceful Abe Lincoln. His expression glows with open intelligence, wit, humanity. From two foxholes lurk eyes that can flick a sense of danger to the farthest balcony. A critic wrote that he has the face of a fallen angel...
...pique than profit. It seems that some Paris stores have lately been nervy enough to question big checks drawn on Rothschild accounts. The bank hopes that the cards will end what one irritated Rothschild officer described as those nasty incidents that "occur from time to time, when a merchant insists on calling us before he accepts payment by check. It has proved embarrassing for us and for our clients...
...Communist cannot serve aboard a U.S. merchant ship. When ex-Seaman Joseph C. McBride sought to validate his mariner's papers in order to get a job, the Coast Guard learned that he had been an active Communist Party member for at least twelve years. After two hearings, the Coast Guard denied McBride's application because it was not satisfied that his "presence on board a merchant vessel of the U.S. would not be inimical to the security of the U.S." Claiming denial of due process, McBride argued in Federal Court that there was absolutely no evidence that...