Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glamour and the constraining star system. In 1963 and 1964, she won Tony awards for her first big Broadway roles, the sensitive social worker in A Thousand Clowns and the delectable mistress in Any Wednesday. For her next big success, the screen version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which she played the frightened young faculty wife, she won a supporting-actress Oscar, skipped the presentation ceremonies, and gave the Oscar to her business manager...
...other hand, she is widely lauded as a "totally original actress" and "complete professional." Most actors need ammonia capsules to weep even once; Sandy must hold the Olympic record for instantly crying on cue-ten times in one hour during the shooting of Virginia Woolf. Mark Rydell, director of her recently completed film, The Fox, calls her an "emotionally fluid actress" capable of doing anything...
Chopped Liver. In Virginia Woolf, Sandy played a drunken child bride with stomach-turning realism and cannily turned the part into that of an anemic ant asserting itself against dragons. "Sandy," Co-Star Elizabeth Taylor says overgraciously, "made chopped chicken out of me-or chopped chicken liver, which is even worse." In Up the Down Staircase, she persuasively demonstrates the importance of being earnest amid the cynicism and bureaucracy of big-city schools. In her most affecting scene, she reaches unreachable kids by getting them to relate their time to the opening lines of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities...
...Negroes. Just the thing to cause a concerned citizen to rush right out and buy the book. But wait a minute. Wasn't that an unusual cap the policeman was wearing? The Chicago police department thought so. None of their men wore it. Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay was also puzzled. She did some checking and printed the results. The officer, she said, was a South African and so were the blacks he was beating at Durban in 1960. Concluded Mrs. Kay: "Looks like the university needs to temper its ads with a bit of honesty...
...bank's lending capacity, thus slashing by 50% next year's planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which the United States is engaged in armed conflict." Since Italy has minor trade dealings with Hanoi, the Administration-backed Fiat deal seemed to be quashed. To make...