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ULYSSES. Director Joseph Strick has fashioned if not the best, certainly not the worst possible film version of James Joyce's novel, helped by a fine cast of actors (particularly Milo O'Shea as Bloom) who ring as true as Irish shillings...
Perhaps not, but next day NASA abruptly announced a top-level, "accident-related" shakeup. Brilliant, energetic Joe Shea, 40, the Apollo spacecraft program manager, was shifted from Houston to Washington, where he will become the deputy associate administrator for manned space flight. His job went to the deputy director of the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center, George Low. NASA insisted that Shea was not being demoted. But even Shea's friends were unsure what his appointment as aide to Manned Space Flight Chief Dr. George Mueller meant. As one of them put it, "If Joe stays in Washington...
...easy to adapt. It merely describes in numbingly minute detail a few ordinary things that happen on June 16, 1904, in the lives of three people in Dublin: a young poet-teacher named Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roeves), a middle-aged Jewish ad salesman named Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) and Bloom's erogenous wife Molly (Barbara Jefford). Joyce overlaid his simple story with symbolic parallels, some mythological and some psychological, that are more difficult to photograph. Stephen, for example, is Telemachus, Bloom is Ulysses, Molly is Penelope, and the events of the day correspond, in ways both witty...
...dirty jokes, among them Molly's assertion that oral sex practices can cause a woman to grow a mustache. As for the people who read the roles, most of them are recruited from the Abbey Theater, and they ring true as Irish shillings-particularly Actor O'Shea, whose Bloom is an ironic portrait of a man who doesn't quite know his place but continually gets...
...only other Harvard swordsman who won more than half his bouts was Steve Shea, taking five of nine against third men in epee...