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Smugglers & Taxidermists. On and on it went, from state Governors down to civil servants. The Governor of Amazonas state was found to have staked out a huge ranch along the banks of the Amazon, added an airstrip, dock and warehouse, and used it to run up a whirlwind trade in smuggled goods. Another former state Governor coolly pocketed an entire $6,400,000 highway appropriation, once appointed 600 men to the single post of state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks...
...declares: "When your father met me, he danced until his feet bled. They were bandaged for 15 days." Ever alert to such cues, Los Tarantos throbs whenever plot and subtitles give way to the stirring beat of darting hands and clicking heels. When an old man caracoles through a whirlwind of autumn leaves. Or when Rafael's doomed friend (Antonio Gades) dances among Barcelona's street sprinklers in the silver-blue wash of a winter's night, casting a rich theatrical spell that makes many another movie musical look as pale as 60-watt moonshine...
Bates begins as a lowly clerk in an upper-U firm of London property agents. En route to a partnership and a Westminster Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like...
...whirlwind President may be fine, but who provides the whirls that create the wind? At the present time their names are Moyers, Valenti, Jenkins and Reedy. Three of them are from Texas, and all have known and served Lyndon Johnson for a number of years-and right now they are very busy...
...Pageant. But all this was only a beginning. In the middle of the week, he went on a whirlwind 2,500-mile, two-day, six-state anti-poverty pilgrimage through the Appalachian region. It was a frenzied pageant. Some of the scenes...