Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, a capacity audience of 2,200 stamped, clapped and bravoed in a demonstration that verged on Beatlemania. One of the few in the hall who seemed unmoved by all the fuss was the man on the podium, hot-eyed, shock-haired Zubin Mehta, 28, the onetime boy wonder from Bombay who, in four years of conducting from Moscow to Montreal, has enjoyed one of the most spectacular ascents to fame in many a decade...
...mile course from Newport to Bermuda, which takes four to six days, skippers allowed their crewmen to relax. Not Shields. He insisted on enforcing the same tense, split-second discipline that he knew from racing for a couple of hours around three buoys in Long Island Sound. The wonder is that Captain Bligh Shields had no mutiny. But by then he had won, along with his international championships, the right to be the autocrat of the cockpit. Nobody who questions a Shields order is ever allowed on a Shields boat again...
...paper chase, see, and it may well have them hollering for more on the summer-camp circuit. But customers with mature expectations will probably wonder how Dublin's Abbey Players, who take most of the supporting roles, were ever persuaded to mix good Irish spirits with such cheap fizz. Faith now, and what happens every time the Abbey people get their Irish up and a scene respectably started? Director Andrew Stone, a Hollywood type who seems to have no trouble standing Pat, summarily lowers the Boone...
Either a sympathetic or an unsympathetic interpretation would probably be justified, and either would be interesting to see. MacLean is probably "correct" in choosing neither. At the same time I wonder why he balances these two extremes with an almost total absence of gesture or inflection, and relies solely on his rich voice to sound noble and tough...
Those who regard Richard II as a showcase for one actor may wonder why I praise Kerr so greatly, yet leave him to the end, and why a show with such a star is unsatisfying. But I think the key to Barstow's Richard is in Richard himself. For, though Kerr is a joy to watch, he does not project a united characterization...