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Gorey: It isn't beyond the realm of dramatic possibility. But rather development -and the prospects of that are remote now- Humphrey will have to do it through a steady erosion of Nixon and Wallace strength, through the image of decency he is projecting, through a return to the fold of millions of disgruntled Democrats, and through the fact that he might very well win some key states with a very small proportion of the white vote...
...wearing on his lapel a golden miniature of the mythological beast that is his family's namesake. In the legends of ancient Greece, a griffin had the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, and served to guard the gold of the realm. Griffin's wife recently told him: "You are opposing the President, the Supreme Court, the minority leader of the Senate, the majority leader of the Senate and the American Bar Association. Who do you think you are?" In reply, Griffin only smiled. In fact, at the end, Griffin even forced...
...album bristles with the brand of hard, raunchy rock that has helped to establish the Stones as England's most subversive roisterers since Fagin's gang in Oliver Twist.* It also stands in notable contrast to their previous album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, which ventured into the realm of electronic wizardry and psychedelic fantasy charted by the Beatles in Sgt. Pepper. Since that was an alien idiom for the Stones, they sounded pretentious and boring...
...sings at least passably on occasion, but has none of the timely flavor or the essential fascination of Jack Lemmon in the movie. Miss O'Hara has some charm and quite a voice when her range and Bacharach's coincide, but has not yet defined herself sufficiently beyond the realm of run-of-the-mill ingenues. Still less fortunate is Edward Winter as Mr. Sheldrake, a transparent, utterly uninteresting characterization...
Perhaps it was this early life, so destructive both emotionally and physically that created the necessity for John to imagine a realm of play, a world where no event is truly consequential, where nothing is real, nothing to get hung about and nothing can hurt...