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Paul Hecht is the current Antony, Young and smooth-shaven in Caesar, Hecht appears graying and bearded in the sequel, where he ages from 43 to 53. He looks fine in both plays. Vocally, however, he is unconvincing in Caesar. He is on the whole more persuasive in the second play. But in 22 scenes--and Hecht is not able to sustain his performance throughout. He nevertheless has some admirable moments--such as the nicely ruminative "There's a great spirit gone" passage; the speech beginning, "O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more and the point when...
...beyond that to the penthouse where McGovern and his top staff hold out, you've got to be very smooth or very important. The Secret Service stops all traffic on the 16th floor. Secret Servicemen don't bluff. They are everywhere--in boats, helicopters, bushes and cars, and cordoning off the stairwell of the hotel...
Automation. The Republicans, with the self-confidence of incumbency, a party all but monolithically unified behind Richard Nixon, look forward to an almost automated convention. The G.O.P.'s three days, starting Aug. 21, promise to be a smooth and businesslike affair, with recitals of past achievements, documentaries showing scenes of Peking and Moscow, the First Family waving under the bunting-Pat and Dick and Julie and David and Tricia and Eddie and Mamie Eisenhower-and perhaps some time out for golf. The only real drama should come on the third day, when the President will end months of speculation...
Because Bench is a brash, smooth-talking top-drawer athlete with a lavish bachelor pad in a Cincinnati singles complex, he naturally invites comparison with Joe Namath. The comparison is invidious. He is warm, friendly and never overweening. Bench's confidence is the deeply ingrained type peculiar to young men who have always known exactly what they wanted to do in life. As he recalls: "In the second grade they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher or cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer...
...seller, distillers can win back much of their $2 billion investment. They can mix light whiskey into regular blended whiskies, so long as they do not call them "light." Says William J. Marshall, president of the Bourbon Institute: "The distillers can use light whiskey instead of grain alcohol to smooth out the premium blends and put on a label saying that the product is four years...