Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richler, adapting his own novel, portrays Buddy with the kind of wisdom that goes beyond explicit judgment. Like Richard Dreyfuss, the superb young actor who plays him, Richler is not afraid to make Buddy unlikable or even sometimes gross. Special attention should also be paid to one of Duddy's most elaborate schemes: hiring a perennially drunken and pompous British film maker in exile to make bar mitzvah movies for doting parents. The film maker is played by Denholm Elliott, who is hilariously disheveled and polluted nearly past the point of pretension, a characterization of enormous comic skill...
...Task Force is part of the JDR 3rd Fund, which for its first four years, beginning in 1963, was devoted to the support of Asian arts and cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Asia. John D. III recently gave his superb private collection of Asian art (valued at over $10 million) to the Asia Society, which he established in 1956. He was a prime mover in the development of Manhattan's Lincoln Center, to which he gave $11 million...
...ministering angel who also ministers to herself. She has an artist's sense of what is real and what is merely tactful. When her husband's doctor cops out and leaves her to tell Jay that his illness is incurable, Sandy's instincts are superb: "I wanted to do it while he was still able to walk. It seemed immoral somehow to tell a dying man the miserable and imminent truth when he was helpless, lying down in the very path of the words...
GOLDMAN RANGES over and explores all these cultural "influences" with a superb critical imagination. But he examines them directly and concretely in terms that bespeak familiarity rather than scholarly distance. And he discovers them embedded in the day-to-day encounters and imaginative responses that made up Bruce's life. Bruce's life, his work and days, not the order or development of Goldman's critical ideas, provide the chapter-by-chapter organization of Ladies and Gentlemen. The book proceeds as a reconstruction of that life out of masses of interviews and recollections. It draws as well on Goldman...
...almost tangible lifting of spirits in the East Room and across the nation. From the Congress that had repudiated Richard Nixon, there was al most universal acclaim. "It will undoubtedly bring the country together," said Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott. "It was magnificent." Agreed Mike Mansfield: "It was superb. He hit all the right notes. It was authentic Jerry Ford...