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...first he intended to escape into the forests and mountains around Paphos that he had known as a young shepherd. But then, he recalled later, "I decided I could serve my people better if I went abroad to rally international support against the Greek junta." Through India's General Dewan Prem Chand, commander of the 2,188-man United Nations forces on Cyprus, Makarios arranged for an R.A.F. helicopter to take him out of Paphos to a British base on the island.' Before he left, however, he made a brief broadcast over the Paphos radio station, which...
...Farrow maintains a delicate balance between a gay childishness with her illicit lover, Gatsby, and a wanton callousness, a total disregard for anybody's feelings. Henry James's novella, Daisy Miller, adapted for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, is a portrait of exactly that kind of woman. But Cybill Shepherd's performance is slightly more questionable. In fact, the whole movie is questionable, like one of James's long spiralling sentences, full of commas, semicolons, and dashes--seemingly interminable. Bogdanovich's problem is that he can't capture James's true genius on film; his eloquent logic and perfect grammar...
...than of rejection. In one sense, the story is a psychological Romeo and Juliet: his family of assumptions and hers won't let their loves come together. There's also a element of class barriers, although neither Frederick Forsythe Winterbourne (Barry Brown) nor Annie P. Miller, alias Daisy (Cybill Shepherd) have money problems. Winterbourne has all of the necessary graces to succeed in the elite American circles of Europe while Daisy, a mixture of pariah and parvenu, doesn't even know enough to hold her teacup with her pinky extended. The real tension arises when she rejects his stiff pleas...
...story concerns the great consternation brought about in Continental society by the appearance of Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd), a rich American girl touring Europe with her mother (Cloris Leachman) and bratty little brother (James McMurtry). Daisy flirts openly with a gaudy Italian opportunist, causing something of a scandal, while teasing an upright young American expatriate named Winterbourne (Barry Brown). The latter observes, with a mixture of melancholy and enchantment, her flouting of convention, and feels drawn to her. Daisy eventually catches "the Roman fever" late at night in the Colosseum, and dies of the figurative effects of culture shock...
Among all the flaws in this movie-the numbing literalness, the flagrant absence of subtlety-nothing is quite so wrong as Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich installed her in the lead as if she were some sort of electrical appliance being plugged into an outlet. Shepherd has a home-fried hauteur good enough for the one-dimensional roles she played in The Last Picture Show and The Heartbreak Kid. She knows how to strike poses for the camera (she used to be a fashion model, after all), but she has no resources as an actress. She runs short of breath...