Word: richard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STAIRCASE. Rex Harrison and Richard Burton portray two bickering homosexuals struggling to stave off old age and loneliness in this unobtrusive film that never yields to the temptation to play its two deviate characters for laughs...
MILE HIGH, by Richard Condon. The author's mania for mania is still evident. But this flawed novel about a man who invented, and then profited from, Prohibition eventually settles into unpalatable allegory...
...York Bernadette made a point of posing with Mayor John Lindsay, who gave her the key to the city and declared himself a victim of "love at first sight." But she reacted differently to two big-city mayors with less liberal qualifications. Of Chicago's Richard Daley, Bernadette sniffed: "I don't even want a donation from him," and she did not meet Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Everywhere, she warned against oversimplifying Northern Ireland's problems. "The press feels we're either trying to kick hell out of the British or kick hell...
MILE HIGH by Richard Condon. 364 pages. Dial...
...hideous possibility exists that Richard Condon has committed allegory. This saddening and unlikely conclusion is what remains after the reader has discarded all ordinary explanations for Mile High. The fine, demented gleam in Condon's eye has become a glitter, like that of a health-bar sign observed through the bottom of a celery-tonic bottle. All who fondly remember The Manchurian Candidate and Some Angry Angel will lament...