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...Nicol Williamson carries out magnificently a part that is punishingly long and concentrated. Osborne skillfully manages to arrest his hero just on the brink of the absurd-even if his man does persist in viewing others just a bit less flatteringly than they view him. "The whole bloody island is blocked," says the solicitor, "with those flatulent, purblind mating weasels...
...sensuous brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up,_ Mutt-and-Jeff fashion, to pursue the viruses and the villains. This includes such high jinks as Terry-Thomas' impersonating a hearse driver and tooling off madly with the coffin of a Moslem diplomat, and a terribly dignified monkey who impersonates live diplomats. The distinctly chilly climax occurs...
Hector Berlioz was 35 at the time of the gift he thus described in his memoirs; Nicolò Paganini was 56, a cancer-ridden invalid no longer bewitching the public with his Guarnerius. But to Paganini, "Beethoven had at last a successor" in Berlioz, and the gift was an invitation to "write more divine compositions." Berlioz obliged with one of his most stunning works-the long "Dramatic Symphony," Romeo and Juliet. Last week the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Chorus under Guest Conductor Alfred Wallenstein gave the symphony one of its rare complete performances...
...eavesdropper on U.S. television looked hard and loosed a cry of outrage. "I never thought I'd live to see the day when a charming, unidentified, beautifully gowned woman would stand in the corner of my living room tearing toilet tissue," complained Vancouver Province's Columnist Eric Nicol last week. He had tuned in on Seattle's Station KOMO just in time to see the commercial for Delsey tissue during the NBC Perry Como show...
Explained Nicol shakily: "We have this madonna of the tissue, throatily advising us that there is no waste as she plucks two pieces apart. We wait in vain for her to produce a comb and give us a musical selection. It becomes clear that her purpose is not artistic but utilitarian...