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Blindfold marks the Hollywood debut of Claudia Cardinale, who must regret the expensive miracles of mismanagement worked in her behalf. Though still identifiable by her accent and by moviedom's quickest smile, CeeCee is lacquered with a standard starlet finish that makes her beauty appear sprayed on. Rock Hudson, meanwhile, plays his own 50th movie role as if to refute the hypothesis that experience is the best teacher...
...resort to conventional melodrama. A modern audience finds it difficult to accept a plot device as blatant as that of the hidden letter in the chiffonier's secret compartment. But Strindberg doesn't care that his plot device was awkwardly introduced. Once he has introduced it, it becomes the quickest means to a desired end, and he can forget about it, concentrating on its dramatic effects on the characters. It is to Mr. Babe's credit that he realizes this and dispenses with the plot devices quickly and efficiently, underplaying the melodrama in the script...
...scarred musician will attest, one of the quickest ways to lose friends is to engage in the precarious art of chamber music. With everyone trying to be boss, squabbles over interpretation can become downright nasty. And with the members of the de Pasquale String Quartet - Joseph, 45, viola; Francis, 44, cello; Robert, 37, and William, 32, violins - it's even more so. They fight constantly. The difference is, they revel in it. But then they are brothers, and this, they explain, is the secret to successful shouting contests...
...sexual attack raced through the city like a plague. Nazi propaganda had long painted Soviet troops as slant-eyed Mongols who butchered women and children on sight, raped nuns and burned clergymen to death with flamethrowers. As a result, doctors were besieged by patients seeking information about the quickest way to commit suicide, and poison was in great demand...
Tennis star Keith Jennings, one of the quickest and most graceful athletes in the East, will probably play in the second spot for Princeton, though he gained the number one berth over Gay for the Navy match last Saturday. Harvard's second man, sophomore Jose Gonzalez, should have a slight edge if he faces Jennings...