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Well he smaller than I had expected. At least, he's not the brawny specimen of British manhood he appears or film. Rather thin and well-dressed, soft spoken and polite. A mild joker in a veddy British way. "I'm an absolute tea-fiend. Get me some immediately, or else I shall have to inject it into my veins." (Take that damn foreigner down to Harlem.) A refined version of the feline eyes, two-coloured hair, the endearingly bumpy nose projected on the movie-screen. The Oxford accent, my dear, of course unmistakable: but not an affected one. Rather...
Several days after the interview, I'm watching one of those all-American talk-show. The Dick Cavett Show. As one of his guests Mr. Cavett Show would like to welcome Michael York, currently starring in "Cabaret" with Liza Minelli. Mild applause. York walks on: stiff, uncomfortable, poker-faced in his dangerously British way. Excerpts from "Cabaret" are shown, scenes more with Liza than Michael. As I watch York chat with Dick Cavett, who is obviously as unimpressed with his visitor as the American audience. I can see York getting more and more nervous, as he begins to push...
...brief case of jitters shook some of the Stardust out of the stock market last week but failed to halt the long upswing of the past four months. The main cause of concern: a rise in short-term interest rates, which signaled an apparent mild switch in the Federal Reserve Board's easy-money policy. Now, to stem the flow of dollars abroad, the board has decided to let short-term rates edge...
Most innovations that come from the other direction--from the city--are met with skepticism by DeLury. But once convinced that an idea has some merit, he accepts it for a few mild concessions. The most frequently cited instance of this is the introduction of plastic bags, which he calls "the greatest thing that has happened in sanitation in my lifetime." The impetus for plastic bags came primarily from the business community, but once he saw the importance of the change, DeLury also backed the move. After being persuaded (and getting appropriate compensations for the union). DeLury fell in line...
...play consists of that mild formula of sterectypes, gimmicks, and murder which Ms. Christie always feeds her readers. This one dates from the mid-forties and, more often than not, acts its age: On a desolate island cut off both from England's mainland and its sense of fair play eight strangers gather for a holiday. Their host, they learn, is delayed in London. As the guests introduce themselves, a ghostly voice breaks in to accuse each one of a specific murder. It even throws in one for the butler and his wife, the cook...