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...Richard Nixon's enemies, Connally embodied many of the supposed peculiar vices of the Nixon White House and the Republican Party. Smoothy, shrewd, wealthy, and opportunistic, Connally was a perfect target for liberal acrimony. When he left the Democrats for the GOP in 1973, his old enemy Ralph Yarborough remarked "That's the first time in history a rat has swam toward a sinking ship." The indictment merely confirmed what Connally's enemies had long suspected, and few doubted he would be convicted. Asked why a man of Cornally's wealth would risk his career for a piddling...
ANOTHER SHAVIAN hero here is the shrewd servant Louka (played convincingly by Roberta Dahlberg) who without pondering irrelevantly about higher love, cashes in on Sergius's moral earnestness to gain a betrothal. Stephen Kolzak turns in a priggish performance as the servile servant Nicola. The casting that sets the tone for the production, however, is that of hulking Tom Shea and lisping Lois Pike as Raina's parents. They are real bulls in the china shop...
...making a new version of The Three Musketeers a couple of years back, they quickly realized that someone had blundered. There was too much script, and Lester himself had too many funny ideas to be contained in a single movie of less than Gone With the Wind proportions. Here shrewd calculation entered. The producers chopped the thing in two, and we are now presented with a new film that is not so much a sequel to last year's delightful hit as a logical extension...
...membership is the best course for Britain," he said in a television interview, "but I don't believe the British people would believe me if I said I had seen the road to Damascus somewhere between Dublin and London." Apparently, the Prime Minister had decided to adopt a shrewd and presumably fail-safe strategy. By not fighting strongly for the Market, he might be able to use his image as a cool, pragmatic Marketeer to win marginal voters who would be turned off by the passionate appeals of committed pro-Europe Laborites. If by chance the referendum fails, Wilson...
...about the entire piece was the lofty label that was pinned on it. Tommy was just strong rock 'n' roll, sometimes raunchy, sometimes highfalutin. The Who even wound up performing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, an appearance that was less an honor than a shrewd piece of promotion. Tommy has not only endured since then; it has flourished...