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...laced with gin. Rodgers' girl friend (Charlotte Rampling) is a pert socialite making her criminal debut as the temptress assigned to dazzle a lieutenant of the armed guards, though much of her wickedness is spent in murdering the Queen's English with such nauseous effusions as "how rave-making" or "supremo!" All of Rotten's cast labors mightily. But on recent evidence, England's humor of idiosyncrasy is dead or in extremis, for nothing so dampens the spirit as to see the muse of comedy working up a sweat...
...Vice President, Humphrey has managed to share at least part of L.B.J.'s spotlight-a feat not unlike a clarinet player getting rave notices while playing in Benny Goodman's band. How does Humphrey do it? He is willing to perform any task, no matter how large or how small, that Johnson requests of him, and he is unabashedly devoted to his boss. "I became Vice President be cause he made me Vice President," Humphrey recently told a reporter. "As a matter of fact, I've always had a helping hand from Lyndon Johnson." Hubert feels that...
...though expected for some time, caused an uproar. The London Daily Express called it "an outrageous interference with the rights we enjoy, nothing less than a sinister erosion of freedom in Britain." Many Britons simply regretted the demise of the slick cigarette commercials, many of which draw more rave notices than the regular programs. The sell is soft and jingles are out, but the British are attracted by the scenes of mountain streams, horse country and fast sports cars...
...ourselves, we would prefer a critical appraisal that evidenced some understanding and care to a blithe rave exhibiting zero sensitivity to what a director and his cast have attempted. It is difficult for us to obtain thoughtful and constructive assessments from outside sources, and we wish we could look to the CRIMSON for help, even in an astringent context...
...Raving Demagogue." Then, for the first time since the campaign began, the President climbed down from the battle's summit and made for Barry in language that, to his own credit, he had eschewed in the past. "We will do all these things," he cried, "because we love people instead of hate them; because we have faith in America, not fear of the future; because you are strong men of vision instead of frightened crybabies; because you know it takes a man who loves his country to build a house instead of a raving, ranting demagogue who wants...