Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author of the Alliance. Closest to being a top man in Latin American affairs these days is White House Aide Richard Goodwin, 29, who has just taken over control of Cuban operations from Nitze at Kennedy's orders. A former TV quiz-scandal investigator who proved a valuable campaign speechwriter for Kennedy last fall, Goodwin wrote Kennedy's highly successful speech introducing his hemispheric "Alliance for Progress." Later, Goodwin was sent to size up Brazil's U.S.-shy President Jánio Quadros shortly before the abortive Cuban venture. So sweeping is Goodwin's new authority...
Home to Bed. That decision shook New York Republicans, particularly since recent private polls have shown that Javits could handily defeat Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. At first glance, it would seem that even the Ritz Brothers could beat "Bumbling Bob" Wagner. His administration has been spattered by scandal. His lurching efforts to satisfy all of New York City's warring Democratic factions have satisfied none. He recently underwent surgery to remove a tumor behind the ear, and his health remains dubious. Last week, pale and drawn as he attended a Democratic banquet honoring Bronx Boss Charles Buckley, Wagner...
...warhorse has been spavined by time and enfeebled by continual exposure? Not at all. G.W.T.W. is as great a show today as it was 20 years ago, a magnificent piece of popular entertainment, undoubtedly the greatest soap opera ever written. It has war, rape, murder, conflagration, greed, hate, love, scandal, starvation, childbirth, costumes, nudity, whores, carpetbaggers, slathers of sentiment, dollops of comedy and the burning conviction that all this wonderful flummery is terribly real and exciting and important...
...weakness of the ending is presently the play's major flaw. The plot itself concludes quite brilliantly, but the actual transition to a finale is awkward. Menelaus has been losing out to rival Trojan fisheries ever since his wife was involved in a scandal for corrupting the morals of a minor (Paris). The Trojan War offers an easy way out for everyone: Helen gets her lover, Menelaus his market, Achilles his promotion stunt. . . . But Segal, somehow, doesn't get the scene which would logically conclude the show...
...hamming their way through all of the essentially unrelated scenes they stumble upon. All of the cast worked without pay. At Morgan's request they also signed a Model Release form waiving their rights to sue the producer for anything in the movie which might subject them to "ridicule, scandal, reproach, scorn and indignity...