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...strongly," wrote Mother Ursula, president of Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa., "that Miss Loren is the worst possible choice to portray a holy woman." In the first place, there were "the bigamy charges." And secondly, her protest continued, "Sophia doesn't have the physique. Mother Cabrini was a small, slender woman. Miss Loren," Mother Ursula observed, "is bulky...
...just another example of Sihanouk's ability to shift with the winds of international politics. Though Cambodia's chubby "god-king" is hardly the picture of a slender reed of bamboo, he is highly pliable nonetheless. So, apparently, is his nation's rickety economy, which seems perpetually bent out of shape. Teachers, civil servants and even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit...
Goldstein was written, produced and directed by two bright University of Chicago graduates, Philip Kaufman and Benjamin Manaster, who claim on slender evidence to have drawn inspiration from Israeli Philosopher Martin Buber's gentle, anecdotal Tales of the Hasidim. Blessed with strikingly good photography and the witty commentary of Meyer Kupferman's musical score, the movie was hailed by enraptured critics at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival as a wildly satirical fable. Actually, Goldstein is merely the sort of cinematic cliché in which a young hero says yes to life by running from scene to scene...
...easily kindled in all who knew him. The book is much too long, fleshed out by generous excerpts from the Beerbohm works, each analyzed and explained to the point of tedium. But in between, there are touching glimpses of the top-hatted dandy whose means were as slender as his gifts: the impeccable Max was compelled to iron his own suits...
...British press, Wilson went ahead with plans for trips next month to Paris, New York, Washington and Rome. This was image-building indeed. In London it was suggested that Labor's leader had in mind a sudden election in June in the hope of broadening his present slender majority...