Word: petered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fact and fantasy in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, a would-be priest who dreamed of being called first to the cloth and then to the throne of St. Peter-becoming the second English...
BULLITT. Steve McQueen is a tough, ice-cold San Francisco cop, pursuing bad guys all over the place. The story is comfortably familiar, but Director Peter Yates freshens it up with some modish visual effects and a chase scene that seems to physically involve the viewer...
...gave me the book, I went into ecstasies. When I tried some of the terms on my friends, they only smiled wanly. Ah well, as someone once wrote in recommending a murder mystery, if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like. PETER D. KRAMER
...score, but otherwise nothing in his playing betrays the tension onstage. After the first movement, Ormandy leans over to whisper: "Bravo." Johansen ripples out silvery pianissimos in the slow movement, builds the finale with structural logic and power. At the finish, the audience-which has been told only thai Peter Serkin is "indisposed" and knows nothing of what has gone on-gives Johansen a warm ovation. Ormandy-who knows all too well what has gone on-gives him a hug and kiss. Backstage, Ormandy describes the feat as "a miracle...
...year began, an American prelate in the Vatican took charge of the institute's affairs. He is Paul Marcinkus, a 47-year-old native of Cicero, Ill., and former special assistant to Pope Paul. In a 2 ½-hour ceremony in St. Peter's basilica in Rome, a choir chanted and Swiss Papal Guards stood stiffly at attention while Marcinkus prostrated himself at the Pope's feet to be made a bishop. The next morning, the burly Marcinkus, who stands 6 ft. 3 in., star ed his new job as the institute's Secretary...