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...sing, she was an instant success. Not only was her voice strong, but she perfected a technique of rephrasing passages-she once sang a single line 52 different ways-that drove audiences to rapture. Her repertoire ranged from love songs to political ballads to adaptations of Moslem poetry, including Omar Khayyam's Rubdiydt...
Funny Girl [1968]. A successful adaptation of a fairly good musical. Streisand, Omar Sharif and Walter Pidgeon. Ch. 5, 9 p.m. Color, 3 hours...
Even the recent whereabouts of China's venerable Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, has been something of a mystery. For the past three months, Mao has been out of Peking and on the move, occasionally meeting foreigners-such as Danish Premier Poul Hartling and President Omar Bongo of Gabon. At the same time, rumors abound that Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, is aggressively accumulating power for herself while Premier Chou En-lai remains in a hospital, recovering from a heart ailment. Chou still meets with visiting dignitaries, but many of his duties have been taken over...
Although Patton admired Omar Bradley, he referred to him as "Omar the Tentmaker." Of General Mark Wayne Clark he was almost invariably contemptuous and jealous. Patton's constant theme throughout the war was a kind of bewildered disappointment that men he regarded as his inferiors were surpassing him. "I can't see how people can be so dull and lacking in imagination," he wrote. "Compared to them, I am a genius. I think...
...characters are exactly the ones who usually appear on rosters for such trips: a cool demolition expert (Richard Harris), his good-humored sidekick (David Hemmings), a terse, harried Scotland Yard operative (the excellent Anthony Hopkins), and an unflappable ship's captain who keeps his turmoil to himself (Omar Sharif). It is usually clear in these hairbreadth holocaust excursions exactly how they are going to turn out. The object is to obscure the inevitable, an exercise that Lester performs with great skill...