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Worldly, urbane and versatile, the top economists are first-class customers of the international airlines, often jetting across the oceans a dozen times a year. Fluent in several languages, they are self-confident in discussing the great painters, gourmet restaurants and gross national products of many countries. They tramp the African bush and they savor champagne at diplomatic receptions, where they advise chiefs of state to start new plants or shut down old ones, to expand or contract imports, to invite or restrict foreign capital. The Presidents and Ministers are receptive to the advice, partly because many of them have...
...graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing an unbalancing act. All her devices are attention-getting devices and point astutely to the gnawing doubt of self at the heart of clowning. Barbra Streisand could be a gawkish version of Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, except that all the Tramp usually wanted was a full bowl of soup, and the character Barbra plays wants the world for her pearl-filled oyster...
...doctor is portrayed with formidable skill by Britain's Donald Pleasence. Fans of British films have long been aware of the unpleasant presence of Pleasence, and he is remembered by Broadway audiences as the transcendental tramp in The Caretaker. In most of his roles, Pleasence resembles something dragged unwillingly out of a drainpipe. As Dr. Crippen, he contrives to look like something sculptured in grey JellO...
...GUEST. Two oddball brothers play host to a scruffy tramp. And with cracking good dialogue and superb acting, the screen version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker remains nearly as fascinating-and just as ambiguous-as it was onstage...
...half a dozen different languages. Unable to comprehend the crew's cries, passengers took charge of small groups and tried to lead them through the thick smoke to their boat stations. Pressed against the rail were scores of passengers in every variety of dress-nightgowns, pajamas, tramp costumes and evening clothes...