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...Frenchmen, le foie - when it is not gras - is the precious, pesky organ that regulates their lives. When a Frenchman exclaims, "Mon foie!", his cry from the gland wins instant sympathy, even in a Place de la Concorde traffic jam. Depending on whether it is swollen, too hard, too tender, congested, enrheumed or, as the French say, "intoxicated" from a surfeit of rich food, the liver is blamed for virtually every physical malfunction from ingrown toenails to inadequate amatory performance...
...laughing, brawling, roistering Welshman who lives on 13 acres in Warwickshire, where he and his wife raise dogs, hay, a cow and donkeys. For lunch he munches double brandies, and when he does a drunk scene-as in his new movie, The Bargee, in which he plays a lock tender on a canal-he warms up with bolt after bolt of black velvet (champagne and stout). "Did they think I could fake it with bloody tea?" he asks. Almost by obvious right, the short, deep-voiced Griffith will play Falstaff next spring in Royal National Shakespeare Company performances commemorating...
MILTON HEBALD-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. Sometimes tender, sometimes turgid figurative sculpture by a classically inspired New Yorker who lives in Rome. At best, Hebald's pot-bellied centaurs, lovers lounging in urnlike bathtubs, and fountain topped by the refugees on Noah's Ark (including a brontosaur that presumably fell overboard) are full of frivolous immediacy. Through...
Coach Bruce Munro plans only one major change in his starting lineun for today's contest. Sophomore Nat Bowditch will take over in the goal for the Crimson. Although this will be the first starting assignment for Bowditch, the young goal tender played most of last week's game against Princeton...
...with the versatility that Claire Zachanassian's changing mods require. Her role is the central one in the play: Miss Milgrim must be comic in one scene, tragic in the next, and tragicomic the rest of the time. She moves from being old and bitchy to being sad and tender with astonishing ease. The scene in the forest when she sits with Medearis who knows he will die that night is the most moving in The Visit...