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Object Lesson. For Trujillo understood the power of terror. Thousands of opponents perished quietly in SIM secret-police dungeons, in spectacular "auto accidents" and incredible "suicides." Trujillo's avenging arm reached even to the U.S. in the famed 1956 kidnap-murder of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, a bitter Trujillo critic and onetime tutor of the dictator's children. The peak of his terror was reached one October night in 1937, when Trujillo issued instructions to eliminate Haitian squatters along the northwest border. Working nonstop for 36 hours, Trujillo's highly efficient army butchered a reported...
Starts Sunday: G. B. Shaw plus Peter Sellers plus Sophia Loren plus Alastair Sim plusplus Vittorio De Sica ought to equal something grand, zany and sparkling. But THE MILLIONAIRESS is merely routine gag comedy all too much of the time. In point of fact, this is a very dud avocado, indeed. Co-featured is a travesty of William Faulkner, plagiaristically entitled SANCTUARY. Don't expect to recognize the characters if you read the book. Lee Remick whimpers as Temple Drake, and Yves Montand is hopelessly miscast as her down and way-out croole lover. Daily from...
Very few moviegoers will be able to resist Actor Sellers. Not even canny old Alastair Sim, who mugs it up as the heroine's lawyer, can steal a frame from this subtle performer who hardly seems to move his face at all. Comedian Sellers indeed is not a performer, but an actor in the best sense of the word; not a professional show-off who attracts attention to what he is doing, but an artist who reveals what he is. And what Sellers is, solely and invariably, is the character he is portraying. In playing Shaw's exotic...
...fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest, Africa. He has not lost his lust for Latin. On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas...
...descended upon anti-Communists in the town of Cliza and touched off a four-day battle that left 100 dead. On the second day U.S. Ambassador (and former Math Professor) Carl Strom was heckled and stoned during and after a nonpolitical scientific lecture at Cocha-bamba's San Simón University...