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...STEVENSON WIT (RCA Victor) consists of excerpts from the speeches, press conferences and off-the-cuff remarks of the late ambassador, strung together with remarks by David Brinkley. Though Stevenson's wit was warm and enlightening, he was not a comic, and to isolate his jokes from the eloquent purposes they served does him no great service and gives the listener little sustenance...
...onetime ambassador to Turkey, niece of former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., a Radcliffe graduate ('33) and wife of a Park Avenue physician, Mrs. Tuchman proved in Guns that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord...
...plays a believably inspired Barbara with clarity and humor, but most of all with sincere devotion to her work in the Salvation Army. Edward Zang plays an Adolphus Cusins actively in love with both Greek and Barbara, and as the scholar-lover he possesses a fine sense of Shavian wit. Terrence Currier as Snobby Price, the hypocritically reformed worker, and Lawrence Pressman as Bill Walker, the unreformed bully, skillfully carry their roles as far as their director will let them. Surrounded by these fine performers, Joan White seems weak as Lady Britomart. She fails to convey the strength and self...
...murdered. He is not, however, which is unfortunate, since James Bond's death is the one thing that might have redeemed this exceedingly tiresome film. If Thunderball has more sex and violence than any of its predecessors, it has less suspense, characterization, and credibility, and I can discover no wit or imagination...
Viva Maria! gives Brigitte Bardot one of the best roles of her career and Jeanne Moreau one of her worst. Fortunately, Moreau treats the handicap lightly, as if she were taking up tent-show theatricals just for the hell of it. Together, the two co-stars perform miracles of wit, charm and camera-wise witchery in this jaunty but slipshod farce written and directed by France's Louis Malle...