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...retain audience sympathy only when he strikes out against painfully over-drawn bogies of pure evil, such as the dissolute Lord Manchester (Robert Morley). Though Hughes takes pains to paint Cromwell as a sexually vigorous masculine dynamo (we even have one shot of him the bracing a long spear), there is more life and sexuality in the tender parting of Charles and his queen (Dorothy Tutin) than in either of the cardboard domestic scenes between Oliver and the vapid Mrs. Cromwell. I say either, as the camera only takes us into Cromwell's country estate once at the beginning...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: Films Cromwell at the Pi Alley Theatre | 1/13/1971 | See Source »

...from The Swan were a fire-sale bargain at $150 and less, but another nameless fan had to go to $15,000 for Judy Garland's red slippers from Oz. As the bidding spiraled around him, Actor Jack Cassidy said, "I'll be lucky to get a spear from Ben-Hur." As it turned out, he didn't even get that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 1, 1970 | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

Richie Szaro and Frank Champi switched places from their Dartmouth meet performances as Szaro won the javelin throw with a heave of 214'4". Champi was second, chucking the spear 204'3", Gerry Hevern and Jake Driscoll took third and fifth respectively in the shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Score 32 Points And Take Lead in GBC's | 4/29/1970 | See Source »

...while they were riding on a highway south of Bel Air, Md. The dead were Ralph Featherstone, 30, and William ("Che") Payne, 26. Featherstone, a former speech therapist, was well known as a civil rights field organizer and, more recently, as manager of the Afro-American bookstore, the Drum & Spear, in Washington. Both were friends of H. Rap Brown, whose trial on charges of arson and incitement to riot was scheduled to begin last week in Bel Air. Reconstruction of the car's speedometer indicates it was traveling about 55 miles an hour when it blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bombing: A Way of Protest and Death | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...Spear-Carrying Bushmen. Small wonder that the camera safari has become so popular. A number of U.S. tour firms are now packaging and promoting all-expense camera safaris, and about 20,000 American tourists will go on safari this year in the East African nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, staying an average of 21 days and spending $650 (exclusive of air fare) on the trip. Not only are the economics attractive, the experience is mind-boggling -because everything in East Africa seems to be a superlative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Travel: Camera with Cross Hairs | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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