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Thus: The Farmer's Daughter, dressed in high boots and her father's vest, in the proper state of disarray to be almost permanently endearing. The same smile which brought us drinks with a charm that consistently mixed up recipient and drink, eased her out of ugly confrontations with hard core drunks. She contrasted with Wheels' essential inaccessibility. The stuff dreams are made of. An imagined conquest. We talked to The Farmer's Daughter. She talked back...
...stands a little over five feet and usually comes wrapped in a clerical black suit and vest that sets off an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The head, or node receptor, as Fuller might call it, carries a hearing aid and glasses so thick they magnify his eyes. This figure has been around so long and has impinged on public awareness so many times, it sometimes seems that Fuller is constantly being discovered and forgotten...
...professional commitment to the national interest, but he never determined who should define it. His contempt for the petty weaknesses of others made it difficult to vest anyone but himself with that authority...
Better Luck. What remains is an enervating epic about a young man, unpromising at school, whose parents did not pay him quite enough attention. Since Young Winston attempts to be a kind of vest-pocket spectacle, there are also a couple of the battles in which he fought (a set-to in the Sudan, a Boer skirmish). Attenborough stages them with all the fury of a grade school recess. He has better luck with the actors, perhaps because he is an actor himself. Ward is credible in the thorny role of Winston as a young man, Shaw superb...
Forster) is a $20-a-day Hollywood private eye who wears a vest, a trench coat and a Bogart mask of cynicism. "I hope you'll pardon the way I look. I just threw something on," a pretty suspect (Jessica Walter) tells him when he rings her doorbell. "You almost missed," retorts Banyon, in a line that dates from considerably earlier than...