Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with Welles's eleventh film is partly economic. For his epic project, Welles could gather only a sonnet-size bankroll of $1,500,000-presumably because few of the pictures he has directed were ever commercial successes. To stretch the dollars, he shot the film in Spain with Spanish extras. The corner cutting shows in nearly every scene. Dubbing has made Shakespeare's words fit badly in the mouths of the supporting players and sometimes of the principals (Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet). The background of Avila sits oddly with...
Essayist Charles Lamb wrote: "A pun is a noble thing per se. It fills the mind; it is as perfect as a sonnet, better." Of course, there is another quotation: "Anything awful makes me laugh." And that's Lamb...
...seriocomic man-woman fencing between Stapleton and Guardino is the special delight of the evening. Here are two people ravenously hungry for each other and yet honestly anxious to cherish each other's dignity. In his most direct play, Williams makes a sensuous sonnet out of his central love symbol: "The rose is the heart of the world...
...outset, the committee had granted Dodd the right to call his own witnesses and cross-examine hostile witnesses. His chief lawyer, John Sonnet, sought to justify the trip to Germany as a legitimate mission on behalf of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. David Martin, who had accompanied the Senator to Germany, testified that Dodd had in fact interviewed a defected Soviet agent. Martin acknowledged, however, that barely seven hours of the six-day trip were spent on the defector's case and that Dodd discussed Klein with Konrad Adenauer...
...Social Relationship." Sonnet also questioned the motives of the quartet that conspired against Dodd. It was brought out that Boyd and Mrs. Carpenter are both divorced, have had a "social relationship," were both fired on Dec. 7, 1964, and made their decision to expose Dodd later. O'Hare, 30, acknowledged that Miss Golden, 23, an attractive redhead, is his "girl friend," and that he did not commit himself fully to helping Boyd until after she had been dismissed last October. Time ran out at week's end, before Dodd, at his own request, could take the witness chair...