Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the small cast is made up of worthies the Little Prince meets on his trip past the lesser galactic bodies toward earth-Victor Spinetti as a historian, Clive Revill as a businessman who claims he owns all the stars, Graham Crowden as a general without a single soldier in his army Once on earth, the Little Prince meets a shy, friendly fox (Gene Wilder) and the aforementioned snake, played by Bob Fosse, who choreographed his own number He dances it with such undulating grace and molten charm that the show, for the moment, is stolen...
...novel's dreary lives are redeemed in the telling. Bainbridge's ear catches the tang of Liverpudlian argot ("My word, we do look a bobby dazzler"). The sisters' petty quarrels are small excursions of humanity in straitened circumstances. When Rita learns that her churlish soldier is illiterate, her dismayed brain is soon assuaged by her emotions. "Dear God, she thought, running up the cobbled alleyway, if he was that unschooled, he would need her, he would want to hold her in his life." Bainbridge unwisely changes her novel into a standard shocker on the final pages...
Most important is the fact that games at Soldier's Field at this time of year are cold affairs. Also remember not to sit next to little old men. They'll only break your heart...
...remember quite well the pain and the joys of last year's Princeton game here at Soldier's Field. The pain came from the fact that my ears and my fingers were freezing off. The only joys came when I finally got out of the stadium and back to my toasty 50-degree room...
...Centennial/ Michener (2 last week) 2-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1) 3-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (3) 4-The Dogs of War, Forsyfh (4) 5-Jaws, Benchley (7) 6-The Pirate, Robbins (5) 7-Watership Down, Adams (6) 8-The War Between the Tates, Lurie (8) 9-The Rhinemann Exchange, Ludlum(10) 10-Something Happened, Heller