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...wine authority and one of the important U.S. philatelists. Trained as a lawyer (one of his former partners is Diplomat-Investment Banker George Ball), Sheriff did a stint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and founded his arbitrage firm back in 1960. He is one of the few arbitragers whose clients give .him full discretionary authority...
...statues of Mut-she is sometimes unflatteringly if elegantly depicted as a vulture -have yet been found in the temple that is dedicated to her or on the surrounding grounds. But the site abounds with statues of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess whose association with fire, war and pestilence made her one of the most powerful in the Egyptian pantheon...
...ending is gaspingly melodramatic and violates the stream of plausible behavior. Maddened by Fonsia's gloating shout of "Gin!" Weller takes a murderous swipe at her with his cane. When she ducks, he tries to demolish the card table in his fury. Perhaps Mike Nichols, whose unobtrusive direction is a model of purity throughout, ought to have the cane shatter on the final blow to indicate the end of this pitiable pair's relationship and of their lives. - T.E. Kalem
Alas, poor Rudy: his bad luck with producers and directors extends 50 years beyond the grave. For his life has now fallen into the feverish-not to say hysterical-hands of Ken Russell, a director whose singular style and energy once promised excitement, but which now promise nothing but outrage...
...story of the man is a perennial rerun in England where it is constantly looped through a culture whose modern alterations were both feared and foreseen by the conservative Waugh. It is the story of a modest publisher's son whose intelligence, ambition and talent lofted him from the bourgeois professional class into the world of the Bright Young People, titled literati and London clubs, where a gentleman might get gloriously or morosely drunk amongst his peers...