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...other aspects of the cover story, but his eyewitness reports, made under almost constant enemy fire, were the basis for the part on Con Thien. The conditions Greenway was forced to work under were a measure of Greenway the man. He is well known at TIME for his sartorial splendor and neat English accent, polished during two years of graduate study at Oxford and subsequent world travels. Tigers and elephants, which he sometimes sees on operations in Viet Nam, make Greenway think he would like to go hunting there some day "if the war ever ends." And he some times...
Meanwhile, Elia Kazan remembered her "originality" and cast her as Natalie Wood's nasty girl friend in her first film, Splendor in the Grass. Then came "my most favorite play, my favorite experience," A Thousand Clowns. "Before that, I was always in a position to be fired. After every rehearsal, I knew they were discussing whether to let me go." Besides, the Clowns company (including Gene Saks, William Daniels, Jason Robards) meshed like the Budapest String Quartet. Robards was "wild, fantastic, my most favorite actor that I ever worked with." Among other things, "he taught me what it means...
...unpleasant feature was the omnipresent police spies among the innumerable servants-a part of the monarchical system that the Bolsheviks have enthusiastically retained. And there was Rasputin. The people might not have grudged the Czar his splendor, but Rasputin was too much. Through his infatuation with the dirty monk, Nicky was finally severed from the people who he believed worshiped...
...possible direction for England in "the near future": a civilization getting on by animal instinct following an atomic war. Privilege proposes an equally bleak alternative: a society still outwardly human, groveling in stupor before a cheap messiah. This pseudo savior is a moronic pop singer who combines the sequinned splendor of an Elvis Presley with the sullen magnetism of a Bob Dylan, draining adoring audiences of emotion and common sense with his bathetic keening...
...revolutionary Ministry of Education building. Roberto landscaped its gardens with all-Brazilian plants, flowers and grasses. Subsequently he laid out the gardens for most of the major parks in Brazil. The "Monumental Axis" in Brasilia and the immense Flamengo waterfront in Rio are alike adorned with the extravagant splendor of rain-forest verdure-all manicured no more than is strictly necessary to conform to the severity of Roberto's designs...