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...frame, he scares easily - the other guy, that is. In one live TV drama, he had a gunfight scene with Rip Torn...
Reversed Decision. The televised debate itself was an anticlimax. Matmaned lads and lasses who had come along to vote (some of them more than once) yelped cheerfully when Oxford Student Rip Bulkeley maintained that he opposed the defense of Britain but would be willing to bear arms "against the Rhodesians, South Africans or what have you." Guest Speaker Sir Richard Acland, 58, an ex-Labor M.P. who left the party because it was too conservative in 1955, sniffed that he considered Harold Wilson's administration capable of assessing the national peril "only if 50 million Siberian soldiers were climbing...
Paraded from ceremony to ceremony, the delegates at hand spent much of their time untangling their motorcades, found themselves protected by such rigorous security measures that it was almost impossible to confer privately even with each other. Although Sukarno got off three rip-roaring attacks on imperialists and their "nonaligned" lackeys, he denied the platform to all but seven of his guests-and then ordered the suppression of an Algerian speech defending the U.N. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman flew home early and a bored Egyptian diplomat shrugged, "This Bandung thing is only to appease Sukarno...
...David a divinity student? At one point his mistress asks him, "Isn't that why I disgust you--because I keep dragging you down to earth . . . because I know you're anything but a saint?" Yet David seems firmly earthbound from the beginning, a man clearly cut out to rip the cloth rather than to wear it. By making him an aspirant for the pulpit, Bramhall turns David into a blunt tool for tedious bludgeoning of religion, superflous to plot and good taste alike...
...Petipa-Ivanov version of Swan Lake in Vienna. In his strong belief that "the Amazonian takeover" of the ballet has resulted in an appalling denigration of the male, Nureyev scissored Tchaikovsky's music, jiggered dances, and virtually reworked every number until the dreamy fairytale prince emerged as a rip-snorting hero who dominated both the dance and drama...