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...enough surprises to keep the audience from falling asleep but not so many shocks as to jolt them really wide awake. He has developed a knack for picking good guest performers, has made his show one of the prized showcases for new talent. The program can be dull and pointless but, as Paar himself says, "there's nothing like it." He adds with a wry smile, "I'm so lovable, I have a love affair with this whole continent...
They have to worry whether Castro has really discarded the socialistic beliefs that he held earlier, including drastic land reforms and nationalization of U.S.-owned power companies. Castro persists in the cane-burning campaign-a pointless waste of the country's wealth that may well anger many Cubans. Up in the hills, notes one conservative rebel with a mixture of admiration and fear, "he acts like a king before the Magna Carta, sitting under a tree and dispensing justice...
Fire Under Her Skin, a French import no doubt better suited for domestic consumption, is one of the most egregiously bad films to be shown in Cambridge in recent years. The plot is muddled, disjointed, turgid, improbable; the entire production, heavy, unamusing, and completely pointless. It is, in all, a careless potpourri of violence and cheap melodrama interspersed with frequent sex scenes as raw and explicit as the censor will allow...
Bagged in Manhattan by a London Sunday Dispatch interviewer, sad-eyed old Satirist Aldous Huxley, 63, rhapsodized about his Hollywood hermitage, where "foxes, possum, raccoons, even coyotes, are always trotting across my terrace," lamented the pointless counterpoint of the brave new world. On Manhattan: "The psychological cost of living is rather high in New York. I find the streets horrifying and spend most of my time in my hotel room in a sort of fool's paradise." On television: "Who needs that little screen with disgusting little grey figures hopping around?" On writing: "It's getting...
...Force pilot grown wary of the troubled air. As an operational major in Korea, Robert Taylor sent many a comrade off to flaming death; in his rationalized pretense that his lost pals were never even born, he has somehow come to believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario spins lengthily around Taylor's prospects of carrying off the chore for a slimy international slob (Martin Gabel). The issue...