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...Beckett is more the toddler; he is the child at bedtime who says "No!" with all of his heart and then gently holds out his hand. And like the child, too, in his awful ambivalence, he is beyond-and before-judgment, so close does he tread on that nether world between creation and destruction...
Matter of Mood. In his quest for admission, Wilson now knows that he can count on Italy, Belgium, The Nether lands and Luxembourg for enthusiastic support, on West Germany for token support. And France? The British believe that Charles de Gaulle might hesitate to alienate the other five by black balling Britain as he did in 1963, but that he may try to delay its admission. A delaying operation by even so consummate a strategist as De Gaulle can not last forever. In the long run, the British feel certain of getting in because they believe that the historic trends...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud), with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud) with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
Director Ritt, without belaboring the tragedy of Leamas, coolly commits to film the grey nether world that the spy inhabits. There are no miraculous escapes or Union Jack heroics. Just ordinary men, trained to be distrustful, sizing one another up at a glance, measuring the assessment against every subsequent pause and gesture. Through ever-changing shades of perfidy on both sides of the Wall, the drama inches toward its bitter climax, made more agonizing by Ritt's detachment. He simply records an event and lets the shock wave follow...