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...thin and sketchy are the characterizations that one or two stereotypical words serve to define and exhaust the nature of the people involved. First comes the dutiful wife (Jessica Tandy) with her 50-year badge of marital honor. Then there is the earthy, pleasure-giving mistress (Colleen Dewhurst), the sympathetic lawyer friend (George Voskovec), a hostile daughter (Madeleine Sherwood) and a remorse-laden son (lames Ray). Finally, there is a flip nurse (Betty Field) and the trusted family physician (Neil Fitzgerald), who has been something like a brother to the dying man. As the characters talk, a mounting pile...
...wheelchair, prey to guilt-ridden hallucinations, his estate and manufacturing company fall into hopeless disarray. Decisions are left unmade, allowances stop, family discipline falls apart and, worse, a Swiss bank account number is lost. The process of the film becomes an attempt on the part of his family, mistress, and attendants, to shock Antonio back into health by acting out various psychological traumas of his past (a punishment in which he is locked in his room with a pig, a confirmation service disrupted by revolutionaries, a platitude-laden speech before dissatisfied workers). Treated as a child. Antonio responds...
...When a son is brought into the business," Levinson told TIME, "the father has all the problems of a man who introduced his rival to his mistress." If the son marries, adds Levinson, complications multiply: the wife wants him home, the father wants him to work late; the wife wants an immediate financial return, the father thinks that his son should work for peanuts because eventually the business will...
Recent alumni who are eligible are those who received bachelor degrees this year or advanced degrees within the past three years. The five "young" trustees on the screening committee include last year's president of the M.I.T. graduate student council, a director of the World Bank, the head mistress of a Midwestern girls' school, a businessman and an attorney. Their ages range from...
...homicide he did not commit, Salem becomes as vengeful as Dracula. Alone, he contrives to exit his maximum-security cell clothed only in socks, shoes, T shirt and briefs-in the dead of winter. With unrefined malice, he dispatches the framers, among them his sister (Liv Ullman), his mistress and a lawyer. Some are garroted, others drugged or axed to death. Then Salem undoes his escape, hustles back through the snow, ascends a stone wall just slightly less perilous than Everest, clambers back into his cell, locks himself in and stretches out on his pallet for some well deserved shuteye...