Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...songs not only cloy, they choke, which must make them as much of a challenge to sing as to hear. In The Slipper and the Rose, the melodies slosh around lyrics that have largely to do with the frustrations of love and royalty. The Prince (Richard Chamberlain) bellyaches tunefully about the difficulty of finding a loved one from amongst the array of regal dogs put forward by his father the King (Michael Hordern). These complaints absorb rather more time than they should, and result, directly or indirectly, in several dance numbers of singular clumsiness. The dancers-presumably professionals-look like...
Each of the chief characters has a gallant last-ditch tenacity that is the mark of Williams' people. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Chamberlain) is a defrocked minister with a penchant for teen-age girls. The hotel proprietor, Maxine Faulk (Sylvia Miles), fancies young Mexican beachboys. The guardians of the spirit as opposed to the flesh are Hannah Jelkes (Dorothy McGuire), a Nantucket spinster, and her ancient 97-year-old poet grandfather Nonno (William Roerick), on whom Hannah's abiding love and care are centered...
...heart of the play, Chamberlain captures the self-lacerating torment of Shannon, and McGuire the innate goodness of Hannah, but both are some what out of their depth where the play itself becomes deeper in certain late scenes and speeches that border on mys tical transcendence...
...downgrade the role of most of his White House staff to "expediters," give new emphasis to the Cabinet as the Administration's chief policymaking body, and use its members as his principal advisers. He has promised there would be no palace guard in the White House, no high chamberlain with the powers that H.R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig had under Richard Nixon. Instead, Carter would give three or four senior aides equal rank and, along with his Cabinet, equal access...
...decade and a half of journalistic exploits. In an "I-was-somebody-too" tone she relates how Lord Beaverbrook gave her a dry kiss on the forehead and tried to persuade her to accompany him on a trip up the Nile; how she talked her way into Neville Chamberlain's suite in Munich (the toilet paper was pink, the wallpaper was blue...