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...living room to watch ABC's special, The Missiles of October, when it was aired last week. The party was subdued; the handful of friends and followers of the fallen Kennedy brothers were clearly moved by the resemblances to Jack and Bobby of Actors William Devane and Martin Sheen. A dramatization of events presented with the doggedness of a documentary, Missiles won some praise from Historian Schlesinger: "It was a simplification, not falsification, of events." But former Secretary of State Dean Rusk had objections. When Nikita Khrushchev, who was played by Howard da Silva, recalled the Soviet ships, Rusk...
Fair Harvard needs a particolored sheen...
...taken out of context, isolated and framed against white backgrounds, lose their identity as functional objects and become complements to the two-dimensional prints of Josef Albers. The interweaving of threads, the alternation of horizontals and verticals, the contrast between the soft haze of nubbly fibers and the smooth sheen of tightly woven threads become pure formal design. One notices, as one would probably never think to do when looking at a dress or chair cover, the range of colors, weights, twists of threads natural and man-made that have been deliberately arranged to create an almost infinite variety...
...Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974). Martin Sheen, who ably played Private Eddle Slovik on TV a couple of months ago, returns in this made-for-TV drama about the famous crook of the 1930s. Pretty Boy's real mother appears in a brief introduction. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
Badlands is excellently cast. Sissy Spacek is a thoroughly convincing Holly, Martin Sheen a superb Kit. He makes him a shabby, landlocked buccaneer, a psychotic pirate. Sheen conveys Kit's craziness so effectively because he does not ever act the madman; he is, instead, a disturbed man trying to act sane...