Word: valets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempts to reach the green in two on the 520-yd., water-guarded 15th hole, most of the excitement was in Augusta's parking lot, where Trevino used his red Dodge Charger as a locker room and interview post. Apparently miffed over the near eviction of his driver-valet for not wearing the proper badge during a practice round, Trevino gave the clubhouse wider berth than a curl-lipped bunker. Nicklaus, of course, could not. He had to collect the winner's check of $25,000 and another green jacket...
...tweed jacket, sashaying around an Edwardian country estate complete with a genuine tarn (the better to drown you with, my dear!), and carrying on in various ways with a pretty governess and a pair of fresh-faced children borrowed from Henry James. Brando is Peter Quint, the ghostly valet of The Turn of the Screw turned into a gardener. The governess is Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), his haunting paramour. The film's Big Idea is to make precise what James left terrifyingly ambiguous: just how Quint and Jessel died, and what they did to corrupt poor young Flora...
Fanatical about his privacy, he often disappears for weekends without telling his closest associates where he is going, and during the half-year that he is free he sometimes disappears for a whole week. He hires a plane to take him to Las Vegas or Denver, or, with his valet and righthand man George Whittington in the seat beside him, heads out of the driveway in his new ice-blue Rolls-Royce. The license plate? KILLER...
...weakest of all; Garcin is a terribly tormented person, capable of the utmost barbarity toward his wife, and at the same time capable of a crippling self-doubt. Little of this is apparent in Mr. Sweeney's portrayal. Ms. Weeks' direction at times is good--the scenes with the Valet at the very beginning of the play, for example, are played with a dash of puckish cynicism, and work well. But the production throughout is marred with sloppy blocking. Meaningless turns and faltering steps abound; the scene at the end of the play when the characters finally realize the permanence...
...Although they were more or less certain of Powell, there obviously remained some question about the final ticket that the President would present. Some time between midnight and 8 a.m., Nixon tape-recorded a draft of the TV speech he was to deliver. He gave the tape to his valet, Manolo Sanchez, who took it to Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods. She typed one copy and returned it to Nixon. The President spent much of Thursday alone in his sanctum in the Executive Office Building next door to the White House, working on the single existing copy...