Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marvin's wife Millie (Barbara Barrie) is on her way up to the suite. What follows is a kind of Feydeau farce with one bedroom door. The scene has been directed with dazzling adroitness by Gene Saks, and Jack Weston's portray al of a human pachyderm in direst panic would bring tears of joy to the eyes of Zero Mostel...
...openers, they look like a winning pair of Jackies, one the actress, the other the Onassis. Jacqueline Bisset, 31, having signed up to portray someone very like Jacqueline Onassis, 46, in a European-made movie, The Greek Tycoon, confessed to reporters that she did not know much about the deal other than that 1) she was "moved after reading the script," and 2) "It's not the greatest role in the world." She may have second thoughts, since the tycoon will be played by that world-famous non-Greek, Anthony Quinn...
Very little of the Soviet Union is on view, save for a few actors badly dubbed, a couple of dancers from the Kirov Bal let and several forests. The most characteristic Russian moment comes in a duet between Will Geer and Mona Washbourne. They portray the deceased grandparents of Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), the two intolerable cuties who have been dis patched by Light (one of Miss Taylor's incarnations) to search out the Blue Bird. On their mission, the kids visit the . Veil of Memory, where they find Grand ma and Grandpa snoozing. Soon after...
...Crimson's cockily arrogant and demeaningly unintelligent reportage of Queen Margrethe's of Denmark's visit to Harvard. Not only is it impolitic and unfair of the University daily to characterize the party of a visiting foreign dignitary as a "traveling show," it is a rude petty gesture to portray this distinguished visitor with pictures and words notable only for their lack of talent and taste. These moreover, share the kind of pretentious irony and mock muckraking to which the rest of the page pretends...
Finally, the question of the true beliefs of the Crimson about the American working class must be raised. The Crimson likes to portray itself as friend of the working man and supporter of organized labor. Yet in Jim Kaplan's confused and in the most part inscrutable article on Daniel Moynihan, he denigrates the fact that the Meany type of organized labor has condemned Soviet totalitarianism, seeing this as manipulation by the powers that be to back up American economic imperialism. Does he really find it that hard to believe that labor could oppose totalitarianism on idealistic grounds, because...