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...Vacant Chair. Wan, drawn, and wearing an ankle-length mink coat, Evita attended the main act of the brief inaugural. Riding in the presidential limousine to the Congress building, she sat at her husband's side in the vice president's traditional place-the place she would have occupied in her own right had army opposition not forced withdrawal of her nomination last year. Last week she sat there only because the place was vacant; Vice President Hortensio Quijano had died since November's elections...
...Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes).* The picture has a warm, earthy flavor with handsomely photographed Technicolor scenes of the rolling Shropshire countryside. And a strong cast helps cover up some of the story weaknesses: David Farrar swaggers masterfully as the horsy squire, and Cyril Cusack is appropriately pale and wan as the deserted parson. But it is in Jennifer Jones's lush, wide-eyed performance as the passionate girl that The Wild Heart beats most strongly on the screen...
...Wrong." Ike seemed unusually harassed and baggy-eyed when he strode into a special press conference at SHAPE to face a full house of correspondents. After wan smiles to right & left, he whipped out his heavy hornrimmed glasses and settled down to the serious reading of a 1,300-word prepared text, forewarning reporters that there would be no questions allowed...
...Churchill had urged Londoners to stay away, and a mere handful of reporters and officials were there to greet her. A black coat hiding her greyish-blue dress (she had taken a black dress with her, but there had been no time to unpack it), her face a pale, wan oval beneath a tight black hat, Elizabeth stood in the door of the plane, looking down at the bared heads of the men who had come to meet her. With a brave half smile, she came quickly down the steps. The black-clad semicircle bowed as one man. Elizabeth shook...
...what they secretly want - something solid to disbelieve in. Peter Cowley's faith is unshaken. Modern man, he concludes, knows too much for his own good. Too sophisticated for miracles, he must find his way to grace through such hoary maxims as "Love one another." To give that wan truism the flush of a bold truth, Novelist Buechner's drawing-room tragedy would have to glow with forthright eloquence; it shimmers with frosty, neo-Jamesian elegance instead...