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...give public support to the New Right causes, which he does indeed care deeply about. But the White House political machinery is not expected to crank up a full-fledged campaign for social and moral legislation. Says a disillusioned Paul Weyrich, chief strategist for the New Right: "Like Pontius Pilate, they just want to wash their hands of the whole thing...
...blue blazer, with eyes that glint like brass buttons, is carrying through hideous plot. Details as thin as his hair, which is combed forward in little bangs. A sure sign of flabby moral fiber and questionable sexual orientation. Only precedent, either thespian or tonsorial, is Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur. What he did to Charlton Heston the fellow in the blue blazer is doing to Port Charles, the town in which General Hospital is situated. Mr. Blue Blazer turns out to be Mikkos Cassadine, an amuck plutocrat who means to create "a brave new world." Wants...
...Harberger. All this certainly help dramatize the nature of the United States' dealings with the Third World. But some people seem more anxious to satisfy their autumnal and luxurious desire for innocence than to advance a position within their own country. Their campaigns begin and end in handwashing; Pontius Pilate is their political theorist. Those of us foreigners who admire the American people for their characteristic qualities of good faith, generosity, and rule-breaking inventiveness must hope that this is not the end of the story. Far-reaching dissent must be combined with the development of a constructive strategy...
...sister's car, and moves through the Times building with mild good humor. He places many of his own calls when he is in New York, and when Punch travels on business, it is often in the company plane, which is piloted by a man punningly known as Pontius Pilate. He sometimes writes letters to the editor under a pseudonym, most recently to lament the departure of a brewery from the city by encouraging the mayor to "plant an Anheuser-Busch." He signed the letter A. Sock ("A punch, a sock...
...Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable cast includes Anne Bancroft (Mary Magdalene), James Earl Jones (Balthasar), Stacy Keach (Barabbas), James Mason (Joseph of Arimathaea), Laurence Olivier (Nicodemus), Christopher Plummer (Herod Antipas), Ralph Richardson (Simeon), Rod Steiger (Pontius Pilate) and Peter Ustinov (Herod the Great...