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...singing sometimes adds to the splendor of the music. James Paul, as the ghost Peter Quint, can evoke lurking evil, great power, and blinding charisma with his smooth tenor, and gives a truly frightening performance. The governess, Jean Marshall, has an accurate, pleasant voice that is sometimes too weak; but it is her acting, not her voice, which makes us care about her even more than we do about the beautiful, corrupted children. Their main difficulty is that their voices aren't quite strong enough; and in the chimes scene, where their hymn deteriorates into a satanic chant, the horrifying...
...countercharges of abandonment and adultery. Now she will have custody of their two children, about $55,000 a year in alimony and the $250,000 Manhattan town house, where she will settle down to complete a fictional account of her experiences in architecture. Title (sigh): Not in Lone Splendor...
...with the magic comb, and the Rolling Stones, whose music is most In right now, reign as a new breed of royalty. Disks by the thousands spin in a widening orbit of discotheques, and elegant saloons have become gambling parlors. In a once sedate world of faded splendor, everything new, uninhibited and kinky is blooming at the top of London life...
...skyscrapers, including the 30-story London Hilton and the 620-ft. London post office tower. Westminster Abbey's statues and memorial have been newly cleaned and painted, and the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is undergoing a $420,000 polishing that will return it to the splendor envisioned by Sir Christopher Wren-and, hopefully, keep it that way, since electric-shock pigeon deterrents are being added. London Bridge is falling down, and plans have been drawn for a $6,700,000 replacement...
...John's auditorium on the meaning of Vatican II, 125 seminarians organized a silent protest march outside. One carried a sign that read "Freedom in the Seminary Now." Earlier, seminarians also circulated a statement criticizing Cushing as an "intransigent cardinal-archbishop" living in "an aura of Byzantine splendor." Cushing angrily responded by warning the students that they could not dictate any changes in the rules, and from among the picketers chose the eight men he expelled - six of them only a year away from ordination after seven years of study...