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...James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean's since the 1940s, when he was featured in the director's memorable adaptations of Dickens' Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. "Alec is a great man," is Snowdon's simple judgment. "The great ones have impeccable manners. They arrive on time; they speak to everyone. It's the other kind who are rude. You find that the crew will quickly sort people...
...freed the athletes from gravity, thus making physical pyrotechnics the premiere element of the sport. The mats on which gymnasts tumble are no longer mere padding to protect against injury, but launching pads mounted on springs. The extra oomph affords additional milliseconds of hang time during which gymnasts can twist and twirl through the same maneuvers as a high diver's. For male gymnasts, wooden dowels inserted into their leather handgrips allow a lock-grip on the high bar and make possible daring-young-man flyaway tricks like the Gaylord II (see box page...
Rice, at least, is on track with his pretty, witty Blondel (rhymes with fondle), a fable constructed on the life of a minstrel (Paul Nicholas) in the court of King Richard I. With the twist of a political metaphor, the Lionheart turns into today's "Iron Lady" of 10 Downing Street. And in case there is any mistaking the satire, King Richard sings a brief ditty on the virtues of self-reliance whose 16 lines begin with the letters M-A-R-G-A-R-E-T THATCHER. But if the show has an angry bark, it is also...
Unfortunately, the song "New Sensations," also points out the dead end Reed is headed after; none of the rest of the songs build and twist his idyllic vision, and Reed provides only one song--the bitter, funny "Turn to Me"--that offsets his "new sensations. As a result, most of the songs on the album remain too thin to merit lasting listening pleasure, instead merely showing a Reed content to rest on a by-now stale formula...
...woman on the ticket: "There's an electricity in the air, an excitement, a sense of new possibilities and of pride." Then came the standard campaign scene of the two candidates waving from the rostrum surrounded by members of their families, but this time with a striking twist: Ferraro's husband joined the crowd on the podium in the role of smiling, adoring spouse...