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...author depicts peasants, priests and princes with the authoritative relish of a man who has grown up with his subjects without ever growing tired of them. He brilliantly evokes the Italian love of the land that borders on mania and some times crosses that border. The past itself is perhaps the most memorable character in Ippolita, and it is as haunting, grave and startling in its reality as Hamlet's father's ghost...
Foreign carmakers obviously do not relish the new U.S. competition-especially in Western Europe, where 109 automakers already vie for the business. France's Pierre Dreyfuss, president of state-owned Renault, pleaded with Detroit not to make a bug-sized car for Europe in direct competition with Renault, Volkswagen and Italy's gnatty Fiat. Henry Ford called Dreyfuss' plea "disgraceful," and is going ahead with plans for a Volkswagen-sized Ford, now dubbed the Cardinal...
...Cressida, first in a lovely gray gown with salmon stole and parasol and later in sultry red velvet, is a southern belle-wether of wantonness (I half expected to hear the Duke of Mantua singing "La donna e mobile" in the wings). And Hiram Sherman brings the suave relish of a Kentucky colonel to the role of Pandarus...
Carl Foreman-once blacklisted by Hollywood and now able to relish the sight of his name in the seven-league titles that proclaim him writer and producer of Guns-has left out nothing but the butterfly from All Quiet on the Western Front. There is the cracked-up veteran who has seen too much (Stanley Baker), the wounded hero who begs to be left behind (Anthony Quayle), the American immigrant G.I. returning to his native village (James Darren), the cynical explosives expert (David Niven), the unresisting resistance heroines (Irene Pappas and Gia Scala), the good German, the bad German. There...
...most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...