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...clear, we can still get a general feeling for their relationships. In an early scene. Ivan tells one of the girls to act her age and, in one of the film's best lines, she snaps. "How the hell do you act 11?" And of course, through a nasty remark like that, she demonstrates exactly how an 11-year-old acts. The playwright, Ivan, copes gamely...
...does not have to confront her in the decades when she reigned implacably over Bayreuth. He cites ample evidence of Wagner's more monstrous traits, which Cosima shared or abetted: egomania, antiSemitism, a devouring exploitativeness. Yet Skelton seems to take his tone from a remark of Cosima's, when the abandoned Bülow told her he forgave her. "What is needed," said Cosima, "is not forgiveness, but understanding." -By Christopher Porterfield
...thumbing" and raised the specter of retaliatory low blows and a "back-alley brawl." Ray Arcel, the 82-year-old trainer who along with Eddie Futch prepared Holmes, replied gently to Rappaport's tough talk: "I'm ashamed, I really am, that anyone would make such a remark. You know, this is a throwback to the old days when they didn't even wear gloves...
According to Arms Control and Disarmament Agency records and my memory, I have made no such comment in a recent speech or in any other speech or statement since I became director of ACDA. Beyond that, the only remark to this effect I can recall was in a letter to a friend, discussing his use of the metaphor. A copy of my letter was purloined from my files...
Graham himself does not always turn the other cheek. When, a few days later, he was told Bill Moyers' remark that it "was not easy to sup with power and get up without spots," Graham replied: "Bill would certainly know about that ... He's supped with power quite a lot." On the Brinkley show, however, Graham was, like most guests, a consenting victim...