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Misplaced Mirth. The Desdemona of the present production would cast a chill on any Othello. Jill Clayburgh is beyond her depth both artistically and temperamentally. She may well have seen the inside of a Seven Sisters college, but never for a single instant does she convince one that she has...
Breathtaking Expansion. During his eight years at CUNY, Bowker has indeed become an irreplaceable crisis manager and shrewd lobbyist for city and state funds. Disarmingly low-keyed and rumpled (he looks, say aides, "like an unmade bed"), he has charmed state legislators and plugged his office into New York politics...
He was essentially a legislative man, not so much an ideologue as a hierophant of parliamentary procedure. He embodied much that is best and some that is worst-or perhaps silliest-in the American congressional tradition. His talent for the political about-face was acrobatic. Everett McKinley Dirksen, said his...
Really Hell. His credentials for the post were impeccable. Father: a successful attorney who was named to the federal bench by President Eisenhower. Education: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, a year's study in Germany as a Fulbright scholar, back to Harvard for law school. Wife: Wellesley. Bartels looks...
These proceedings might have turned out to be pretty shabby without the presence of first-rate actors who can turn any scene, without warning, into a jape or a jolt. Cassavetes, who took the role to get money to finish his 1968 film, Faces, looks rumpled, intense and angry as...