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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes to force the delegates to get on with the job or risk new elections. By reserving the right to approve the finished constitution, he intends to prevent the enactment of provisions that could lead to turmoil or shatter Pakistan's unity. Two other provisions he has made appear to demonstrate Yahya's sincere desire to restore civilian rule...
...plays with the ambience of sophistication. One always seems to be slumming upwards at a Coward play, forever lingering on a moonlit terrace, and peeking into bedrooms that are more like ballrooms. The characters always seem to be in evening dress even when they aren't. They appear to be dancing even when crossing the room just to pour a drink...
...Caricature goes to reality for a model, but Coward's people exist outside reality. They are stage originals. In this sense, the casting of Private Lives is just about perfect. Brian Bedford seems like a man who would be naked without his cigarette case, whose cigarettes, in fact, appear to be smoking him, as if he were an afterthought of his own props. Tammy Grimes seems not born of woman, but rather like a creature conjured up at a séance by some zany medium. She delivers lines as if they were exquisitely amusing slush, a kind...
...Faculty's relation with the Corporation and Overseers "is in reality much wonder than some people appear to believe...
Ford discounted any political reasons behind his decision. "In a highly politicized atmosphere, any such action is likely to appear political in motivation," he said...