Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guinness' current vehicle, now at the Saxon Theatre, is a film version of Daphne DuMaurier's novel The Scapegoat. This affords the star another opportunity to undertake more than one role. But whereas he portrayed an octet of completely different characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets, his task here is in some ways much more difficult: Guinness, without benefit of contrasting makeup or costume, has to portray two men visually identical and sometimes conversing with each other--a British college French teacher on vacation in France, and a French count. The latter tricks the former into taking his place...
Inkeles and Bauer conclude that if Americans are not equal to the task of maintaining freedom, they must leave the Soviets to set the pattern of human existence...
Flanked by his task force of high-priced pressagents and lawyers, Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine made a big headline decision during congressional committee hearings last summer on his dealings with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams (TIME, June 23, 1958 et seq.). He would refuse to tell the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight about cash withdrawals of $104,973 from two of his tangled companies on the ground that the questions were not pertinent. Congress slapped him with a contempt charge...
Saved: $19 Million. Founded in 1857, North German Lloyd was one of the world's major passenger carriers before World War II; its queenly Europa and Bremen IV competed with British and French ships on equal terms. But the war cost the line 99.5% of its tonnage. The task of reconstruction fell to brisk Director Richard Bertram, 55, and pfennig-pinching Co-Director Johannes Kulen-kampff, fiftyish, who personally picks through the company's discarded files to salvage used paper clips...
Generally speaking, this company is not quite up to the task. The pace is slow, the timing sporadic, and the movement stiff. Nevertheless, the natural humor and inventiveness of two of the performers provide some highly amusing moments...