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ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy. Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel...
...world watched in a "show me" spirit. Jack Kennedy had drained the world's capacity for unrestrained fascination with the U.S. presidency, and Lyndon Johnson was sure to harvest some initial resentments. But in that enormous goldfish bowl, he went relentlessly to work, determined to put his own stamp on the presidency, rarely trying to be anything but himself...
...with more money than Congress had given for the previous year's program, though Kennedy had requested $1 billion more. A $375 million mass-transit program that had been stalled in a House committee for two years was passed. A conservation program was enacted along with a food-stamp bill. Then, of course, there was the poverty program...
...gravid wombs. If worse comes to worst, Alfie is game to arrange an abortion, though not quite up to paying for it. In the lost lingo of yesteryear, Alfie is a bit of a cad, and it might follow from this that he is repellent. Quite the contrary. Terence Stamp plays him with enormously ingratiating charm, zest and skill. More important, Playwright Naughton has netted a real character, and reality exonerates itself in the theater, turning moralizing attitudes into carping ghosts at a feast...
...less than delirious-they are waiting for the jam in jamhuri. A year of independence has brought more problems than prosperity. Kenyatta remains one of Black Africa's more responsible statesmen, and he retains some ties with the West-in one case literally: Kenya's latest postage stamp shows Jomo wearing his old school tie, that of the London School of Economics...