Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden popularity: it carried a ringing attack on Greece's military rulers by the most popular of conservative Greek politicians. He is Constantine Karamanlis, 60, the former Premier (1955-63) who gave Greece an unparalleled period of political stability and economic growth before a quarrel with Queen Frederika and an election loss to Liberal George Papandreou persuaded him to go into self-imposed exile in Paris...
CAMELOT. Joshua Logan's re-creation of the never-never land inhabited by King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero) is about as enchanting as a Hollywood back lot, despite the regal talents and rich voice of the leading lady...
CAMELOT. Joshua Logan's re-creation of the fantasy land inhabited by King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero) is about as enchanting as a Hollywood back lot, despite the regal talents and rich voice of the leading lady...
With a quick change of hair style, posture and camera angle, he turns into a fire-breathing Jomo Kenyatta, a smug Queen Victoria or a lurching Foreign Secretary George Brown, sputtering: "I'm having to solve the Viet Nam war, and you don't see pictures of me doing that, do you? No! You see pictures of me doing the hokey-pokey!" In a recent takeoff on BBC documentaries, he played a mustachioed producer, a brandy-guzzling announcer, an unemployed lathe operator-and the entire British Cabinet. In last week's skit, Bird was a lisping Field...
...news to anyone anywhere that war is bloody and cruel. What saves Lester's movie from banality is its dazzlingly surrealistic approach and moments of explosively funny comedy-notably, a court-martial scene in the desert that rivals the Red Queen's interrogation of Alice for sheer illogic. In a generally first-rate cast, Jack MacGowran is outstanding as a mad soldier who could have stepped from the plays of Beckett, while Crawford, as the silly subaltern, alternates hilariously between villainy and vanity. Despite its pictorial audacity and quirky humor, the picture is less impressive as a film...