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Chocolate-covered ham is the prevailing flavor of Foxy, which borrows its name and some threads of plot from Ben Jonson's Volpone. Double-crossed by three rascally pals, Prospector Lahr gets his revenge by pretending that he is at death's door, with a fortune in nuggets...
Lackluster Speaker? Under Charles de Gaulle's stern and authoritarian rule, many Frenchmen have felt politically stifled. True, he has not proved to be the harsh dictator many critics predicted five years ago. But Frenchmen ache for a return to the clashing opinions of democratic rule-without the factional...
By risking monotony, by risking crummy jokes, by risking spontaneous little forays into sex, wistful interludes of conversation, jagged fragments of anger and malice, instead of calculated dramatic climaxes, Marathon '33 acquires the conviction of life as naturally as a city street gathers soot. With this production, Actors Studio...
Toward Maturity. "Basically, there is a conservative group in practically every congregation and every seminary and every Christian organization today," says Dr. Earl Kalland, faculty dean of Denver's Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary. Critics of evangelical conservatism charge that the real sources of its strength are desire for the...
The Cardinal has something for every race, creed and collar. In one irrelevant sequence, it even has Broadway Comedy Star Robert Morse (How to Succeed, etc.) doing a song-and-dance routine with half a dozen Adora-Belles dressed up like Statues of Liberty. Preminger already knows how to succeed...