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...Things That Go Bump in the Night. Terrence McNally, 26, had better beware of moths, for his mind is pure wool. The thoughts of this playwriting youth are the fashionably wrong wrong thoughts about Nuclear Apocalypse, the Bitch Mother, the Castrated Male, the Homosexual Martyr, and the Dehumanization of Everyone. The result is one of those off-bleat stupefactions that make the modern stage look like the queerest wing of a nuthouse...
Russell is the farthest thing in the world from the Johnston sort of wool-hat politician. A lawyer by profession, Russell amassed a fortune estimated at $40 million in banking, auto financing and other investments, served without pay for five years as president of the University of South Carolina...
...regulations aimed at halting the flight of capital. He was partially successful. After two straight years in which G.N.P. had declined an average 4.6%, the government reported that output in 1964 rose 8.2%. In the process, however, wages and living costs both shot up 30%, while meat, grain and wool exporters began complaining that high production costs and an artificially low exchange rate made it almost impossible to compete in world markets...
This doggedly purposeful drama qualifies handily as the grimmest movie of the year; yet the best of it burns into the mind. As the pawnbroker, Rod Steiger performs with tightly measured virtuosity. He is colorless, an inconspicuous blob hidden behind steel-rimmed glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes...
...asked the two companies for information about their investments in South Africa. Officials at the bank told him they had loaned the South African government $2,000,000 in 1963, and said they now serve as collecting agents for the American-South African wool trade. United Shoe told him they owned 75 per cent of a British firm with five plants in South Africa...