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Patent Sophistry. But competing with Buckley becomes more difficult with each week that he is on-camera. To his peerless rhetoric he is now adding increasingly polished stage business. Just before he delivers a cruncher, his tongue licks from the corner of his mouth, his patrician voice rasps into a lower register. Similarly, the elevation of his eyebrows telegraphs the drop of a guillotine blade. Another Buckley tactic-when the antagonist has the floor-is to close his eyes, as if he is hearing insufferable platitudes, or to raise them heavenward, as if to invoke Aquinas against such patent sophistry...
Died. Henri Soulé, 62, peerless New York restaurateur; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING...
...more informed, committed and passionate" than any actress he knows: "She is totally involved in the seriousness and importance of movies as distinct from the money and glamour." India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) and Hollywood's Carl Foreman (The Victors) both say she is peerless in films today. And François Truffaut, whose Jules and Jim caught much of her chameleonic range, says: "She has all the qualities one expects in a woman, plus all those one expects in a man-without the inconveniences of either...
...second and concluding act, the audience finds out why. The physicists were merely feigning madness, and the nurses were getting wise to their game. In fact Newton and Einstein are secret agents-for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., respectively-with orders to abduct King Solomon, a peerless physicist from an unnamed third country who has solved "the problem of gravitation." This invites some windy word slinging about how a scientist may best preserve his probity. Solomon convinces his colleagues that they should all stay in the madhouse, because "we physicists have to take back our knowledge." However, in an ironic...
Married. Stirling Moss, 34, peerless driver of racing cars until his near-fatal crack-up in 1962; and Elaine Barbarino, 24, pretty brunette daughter of a New York contractor, Moss's constant companion and helpmate since the accident; both for the second time; in Hertfordshire, England...