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For Michigan's Governor George Wilcken Romney, the six-state 8,270-mile western tour he concluded last week should have been a breeze. The territory was generally friendly, the audiences for the most part restricted to fellow Republicans and brother Mormons. No rivals have yet ventured out on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Two Romneys | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Alan Richards is far too surly and petulant to make Jean, Berenger's fop friend, as funny as he should be in the opening scenes. It may be that this petulance is the only way to make Berenger's lines work as well as they do, but I'm not...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Rhinoceros | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

But other switches don't make it. Miss Rosenthal has trouble in her flip-flops between being a character and a disgruntled actress. She's petulant and funny as the latter, but too timid and line-swallowing as the former. She should go at being a scatterbrained maid and occasional...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Skin of Our Teeth | 11/10/1966 | See Source »

In gist, Marat/Sade shows Sade's little company reenacting the death of the Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of the Royalist Charlotte Corday, before a stage audience of Charenton's director and his lady. But the murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: Marat/Sade | 10/29/1966 | See Source »

Fun Man. Pudgy and sometimes petulant as a bobbysoxer, Luci has evolved into a slim, articulate, engaging girl-woman who has been able to weather the limelight with considerable poise and-it seems to some-greater relish than her pleas for privacy would suggest. The impression she conveys obviously concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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