Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaunt Anthony Grey, home in London, came the description of a drab solitude "much worse than anyone can imagine." Grey, the best known of the three (and last week awarded the Order of the British Empire), was confined for 26 months in his Peking home-mostly in one room-solely in retaliation for the arrest of Communist Chinese agitators in Hong Kong during the riots of 1967. Describing "the worst moment of my two years" in an interview with a Reuters colleague, Grey told of the hot August night shortly after his capture, when some 200 Red Guards swarmed into...
...Foreign Language Press, also made one costly error. Preparing to leave China in November 1967, he packed some notebooks in his suitcases. As a result of this "smuggling," he lived with his wife and son for two years like characters in an existential drama, locked in a single hotel room...
When Burns decided on Columbia as the college of his choice, he went about applying with typical directness; he marched straight to the office of the president. Advised that the college had closed its admissions for the year, he nonetheless so impressed the authorities that they made room for him-and gave him a scholarship as well. To help put himself through college, he worked as a postal clerk, waiter, shoe salesman and mess boy on an oil tanker; he also wrote business articles for the New York Herald Tribune...
...Hotel America, Marvin paused to receive a scroll declaring him an honorary Houstonian, then ducked into the Rib Room for a press dinner. Asked about John Wayne, he stared at two reporters with mock malevolence across his tossed salad, slowly raised a pointed finger from an imaginary holster and cried: "Zap! Whammo! Jesus, the guy's still got it." But, said one reporter, "Wayne's 62 now and his fight scenes are beginning to look a little-well . . ." "Fight scenes!" roared Marvin. "Hell, I thought those were his love scenes. Hey, don't print that...
Back on the ground, with little but their own dignity to hide behind, Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard have some good sport impersonating various historical figures who stand about the control room looking grim but determined. There is a thunderous, pseudo-symphonic score to delude the audience into believing that various moments are tense, exciting, exhilarating, tragic, or all of those things at once. It also helps keep people awake during the movie's interminable 2-hr. 10-min. running time, in which it often seems that The Battle of Britain takes longer to watch...