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...importance of television can hardly be overstated. It was in 1972 in Miami Beach that Richard Nixon took the modern convention to its full contemporary role-a four-day-long TV show. His aides actually wrote a script for the convention. Last week's extravaganza went so far as to include the appearances of key Republicans on morning and evening television news shows as part of the daily convention schedule. The timing, the lighting, the selection of entertainers, the sequence of speakers, the music, the makeup on the politicians' faces, everything was for television...
Cherubino's role-a woman must impersonate a boy-is extraordinarily tricky. Peggy Everitt's slight but colorful voice was perfect for the part, and her saucy portrayal of the page clicked...
...Neal to take an interest in her husband's work. As the sleazy wife of a roughneck Greenwich Village poet, Joanne belts out her best lines with actressy intensity and proves only that she is too bright a blonde to play dumb. Somewhat more at home with his role-a poet with a sex life as breezy as James Bond's-is Sean Connery, who displays some proof of his versatility by shouting a lot. While earning a buck on the payroll of Athena Carpet Cleaners, Connery seduces a private secretary in a private office that slowly fills...
...been fired. One is scheduled for its first full test late this summer or early this fall. But Polaris' progress has been indisputable. And if it keeps its promise, it will do one thing that is overdue: it will speed the Navy beyond its traditional surface task force role-a role all but obsolete in the missile age-into a global underwater mission that will reassert and make meaningful the need for control of the seas...
...Role-a Clarification...
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