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...name's Ed. Mr. President. I'm sure we could handle these matters without you, sir, but the press might see you leave the White House if you go riding. Maybe if we finish early, you can go before dinner...
...something more even than a thinking man's Rocky. One takes from it subtler pleasures-the controlled ferocity of Ben Cross as Abrahams, for instance, and the gentle strength of Ian Charleson as Liddell. A word of praise, too, goes to a supporting cast that includes Sir John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a pair of congealed Cambridge dons, Nigel Davenport and Patrick Magee as Olympic committeemen respectively too smooth and too Blimpish. Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted...
...Monday night, the Stones played at the small Sir Morgan's Cove Bar in nearby Worcester before 300 fans. Eleven persons in a crowd of 4000 waiting outside were arrested for disorderly conduct...
...19th century English historian Sir John Seeley once noted that "history is past politics, and politics present history." For a while last week in Durham, N.C., Richard Nixon's past politics threatened to deprive Duke's historians of a disquieting repository from the past...
...Bryden Thomson conducting the Ulster Orchestra; Chandos). Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) is probably best known in America as a reorchestrator of Handel's Water Music. But Harty, born in County Down, was also a composer and conductor. The Irish Symphony mixes such well-known tunes as The Girl I Left Behind Me with Gaelic airs and original melodies to produce a score worthy of comparison with another delightful, little-known Irish Symphony-Sir Arthur Sullivan...