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...Nero Congress. There was some justification for the President's pique. Johnson knows only too well that the commission's imaginative recommendations for eradicating the squalor of the ghettos will seem intimidatingly ambitious to the penny-pinching 90th Congress. New York City's Mayor John Lindsay, vice chairman of the commission, warned that "the cost figure is relatively unimportant in terms of what we have to do in or der to save this country from the possibility of chaos." Nonetheless, with the Viet Nam war taking more than $2 billion monthly, Congress is in no mood...
...sentiment of the hard core rural and Southern areas, New York Democratic Representative Richard McCarthy spoke for the urban sector. "It is my hope," said he, "that the historians will not be looking back at me and the rest of us and declare that we constituted the 'Nero Congress' which took this report and did nothing about...
CAMELOT. Joshua Logan's re-creation of the never-never land inhabited by King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero) is about as enchanting as a Hollywood back lot, despite the regal talents and rich voice of the leading lady...
CAMELOT. Joshua Logan's re-creation of the fantasy land inhabited by King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero) is about as enchanting as a Hollywood back lot, despite the regal talents and rich voice of the leading lady...
...royal about Camelot's carious screen version. It has been brought crunchingly down to earth by the churlish touch of Director Joshua Logan. To be sure, the film is a re-creation of the triangled plot involving King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero), the interloper-knight who gives his rivals at the Round Table their joust desserts, thereby arousing the lady's passions. The King ignores their affair until the appearance of his bastard son Mordred (David Hemmings), who sunders the kingdom with slander and rumor. A war between Arthur and Lancelot...