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DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY by Leonard Woolf. 259 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...famous verse, Yeats diagnosed his age as a time when the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity. In this spirit, Leonard Woolf, British Lib-Lab intellectual, publisher, politician and husband of Novelist Virginia, has written the fourth installment of his autobiography. Its value as a document of an age and a class grows with each volume...
...said that Miss Taylor intentionally gained weight to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? If so, she must have gone into this film too fast to trim it off. Huston wisely spends most of the time presenting Miss Taylor in unbuttoned blouses, but a full-length nude shot of her (or her stand-in) climbing a stair simply fails to justify the spying enlisted man's sudden fixation for her. Her performance is, on the other hand, quite thin, with Miss Taylor's most affecting scenes those with her horse...
Nitty Belcher. At that point, shrewd old Jack Warner, sensing that Dennis was "going to be a very big star," foxed the trade by gambling on her in his $6,000,000 adaptation of the bile-black comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Mike Nichols was frankly worried about Dennis' reputation for being obstreperous, but happily found her "just about the easiest actress to work with that I have ever met." And her co-stars agreed...
Turning philosophical, Sandy divides her world into "realities" and "unrealities." Her professional activities are the unrealities, her relationship with Mulligan and their possessions the realities. Not that Sandy has so crystalline a view of her own mind and goals. She had a miscarriage during the shooting of Virginia Woolf, and in speaking about it she says: "I don't want children, and I don't not want children, you know...