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...with Senator Engle on the telephone on my last trip to Washington," said the Governor, "and I tried to suggest that he invite me over to see him, but they didn't follow through." Until last week, Engle had dropped virtually from public view, appeared only in a wheelchair at President Kennedy's funeral. There, California State Chairman Eugene Wyman gently asked him his plans, was told only that a decision would be made in January...
...Rufus. There are moments when the film seems about to capture this elusive poetic mood: Jay and Rufus at the picture show laughing at Charlie Chaplin, then moseying home after dark; a visit to Rufus' great-great-grandmother, edentate, gibbering, gaunt, propped up in her wheelchair like a gnarled old angel of death; Rufus amidst mystifying adult rituals at the funeral parlor where he goes to see his father. But too often a good beginning comes to naught. Scenes shot with a camera placed no more than knee-high to a grasshopper can supply kidsight without insight, and Michael...
...receive a small group for a personal greeting. An Episcopal priest from Chicago spoke briefly about an ecumenical center to which he belongs. A boy presented the Pope with a soccer ball, neatly wrapped in white paper. Paul courteously rose to assist an Irish woman confined to a wheelchair with a broken ankle...
...three Gilliland children surviving, Beth, 10, is still in a toes-to-shoulders cast. Nancy will go back to school next month, but in a wheelchair. Ellen, 4, has recovered well from a fracture of the pelvis, and will start kindergarten. Remembering the members of her family whom she has lost, and thinking of the sight restored to the cornea recipients, June Gilliland says simply: "Isn't it a wonderful living memorial...
...playwriting Beckett thrives on frugality and restraint. He tends to use a small cast, to observe the classical unities, and then to set up further obstacles for himself. Now he uses a mute character, now just one man and a tape-recorder; now he confines one character to a wheelchair and two others inside ashcans, now he does away with spoken words entirely. In his latest work, simply called Play (1963), the three characters are ensconced in big white urns with only their heads visible...