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...innocent as Candide, he embarks on this quest. He plunges into war sates himself with sex, goads his father's discontented subjects to revolt and embarks on domesticity with a wealthy widow. But the elixir of life eludes him. After each venture he finds himself asking, in the words of Peggy Lee's song "Is that all there is?" Indeed, this Pippin might seem like something of a fool if John Rubinstein, son of the pianist Artur, had not imbued him with such a sweet and winning nature. His life, as related in this story, is more...
...fresh as first love. The show also contains less familiar Coward, like Nina, a balky girl from Argentina who absolutely refused to "begin the beguine," and cursed people who "besought her to./ She cursed Cole Porter too." In A Bar on the Piccola Marina we meet the playful widow, Mrs. Wentworth Brewster, who was delighted when some young Italian sailors goosed her. And so it goes, all of it faintly scandalous, terribly urbane, romantic, fantastic and with a great to-do about not making a great to-do about...
...only last January emerged from his World War II hiding place in the jungle of Guam, found the contemporary world rather unsettling. Modern women, particularly, struck him as "monsters" who "screech like apes." Now, apparently, he has found an old-fashioned girl to marry: Mihoko Hatashin, 44, a war widow. Said Mihoko: "We can now communicate with each other by eyes, though we don't talk to each other much." The couple's expected honeymoon site: Guam...
...ranging from Bernadette Devlin and Prime Minister Jack Lynch to the arch-conservative Protestant preacher, the Rev. Ian Paisley. Ophuls has structured the film not on these interviews, however, but around the impact of meaningless deaths. Parents mourn the incineration of their adopted son Colin, 17 months old; a widow tells how her husband, a prosperous Belfast businessman, tried to defuse a bomb that blew him apart. Ophuls ends this superb and important film with memories of a teen-age schoolgirl killed accidentally as she rode home from a dance one night in an ice-cream truck. An innocent life...
...said Kitty Carlisle. "It looks as if everyone's back from the beach." So it seemed. Many of the returned vacationers packed into TV Interviewer Barbara Walters' Manhattan apartment for her 41st birthday party. Among the celebrators: Walter Cronkite, Jacqueline Susann and Phyllis Cerf, Bennett's widow, with her steady escort, former New York Mayor Robert Wagner. Then the door opened and in walked a man who introduced himself: "I'm Martha Mitchell's husband." "Yes, how well you look," said Radio-TV Announcer Ben Grauer to former Attorney General John Mitchell. Barely unpacked after...