Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter camp have been multiplying. As some Carter watchers have been telling it, the Chairman, as Burns is known, was a major influence behind the President's apparent swing toward more conservative budget policies. By some accounts, the Federal Reserve chief's arguments had a big role in persuading Carter to withdraw his proposal for an $11.4 billion tax rebate -framed by Liberal Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser. And when Carter invited congressional leaders to a White House breakfast to try to sell his tightfisted fiscal policies, he brought along both Burns and Schultze...
...ability to know what is going on. I've seen him shift his position during a meeting, or shift from one meeting to another as the consensus changes." In other words, Burns takes care to move the discussion in the direction in which agreement seems to lie. The role of Burns' predecessor, William McChesney Martin, was far more passive...
...chorus on for its big moments, then get rid of it in a hurry. Despite a few intonation problems in the high range, Soprano Patricia Craig of the New York City Opera made a soulful Lisa. The Italian soprano Magda Olivero brought her legendary stage authority to the role of the Countess, although there is not much left of a once distinctive voice. As the obsessed Herman, Jack Trussel was the highlight of the show. Here is an American singing actor with a riveting, haunting stage presence and a clear, powerful tenor voice to match...
...Greatest is a direct descendant of this decrepit breed. The scenes are shot and played as if there were no money for retakes, and the script refuses to entertain even a hint that its hero may at any time have acted any role less than that of a natural nobleman...
Perfect Recall. Why, then, is The Greatest such an agreeable experience? The answer is that The Greatest, a.k.a. Muhammad Ali - who created this role originally for sportswriters and polished it before a thousand television audiences - has now immortalized it on celluloid with perfect ease and confidence. In real life he has become a bit of a bore, especially as his skills in his higher calling, as perhaps the most artful heavy weight in history, have slipped. But .if he can no longer quite remember what to do in the ring, his recall of his marvelous performances outside it is perfectly...