Word: followings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...instincts, Hitchocock takes what he wants from Topaz's script and undercuts the rest. What he wants seems to be situations; the rest, sentiments expressed in the dialogue. Topaz has more existential variety and less emotional intensity than any of his previous films. New people and places follow each other, evoking scant reaction from the hero and his closest associates. The film has at least four beginnings and endings, but its characters do not change in the slightest. Hitchcock does not even motivate their actions...
...dozen acts of violence in a recent two-week period. Unless the terrorism and incursions were stopped, warned the Israelis, Lebanon would suffer. To emphasize the point, an Israeli patrol crossed the border, blew up five abandoned houses, and warned Lebanese villagers in Arabic that worse would follow if guerrilla raids continued. Beirut protested that most of the incidents had involved the destruction of minor objectives like power lines or culverts, and accused the Israelis of overreacting. Nevertheless, no one in the Middle East takes Israeli threats lightly. Beirut's airraid warning system was brushed off and tested...
Restaged for Joffrey by David Blair (who danced the original Captain Belaye in London), the work produces unabashed delight in the mutiny, wholesale though ladylike transvestism, and twin marriages that follow, courtesy of W.S. Gilbert. As Poll, Charthel Arthur falls in love more energetically than anyone m recent memory. As dashing Captain Belaye, the man whose Apollonian suavity, superb condescension and sheer sexiness cause all the trouble, Edward Verso turns a comic role into a major characterization. One rude criterion for establishing a ballet's worth is the impulse to dance that it stirs in an average member...
...House guys come over to scrub Nixon's image and get rid of any warts that seem to be developing. And we try to use them. But it's a little cozier than the usual kind of group." Adds Sperling: "The great advantage is that we can follow up questions and keep boring in. At White House and other news conferences, you don't get to ask the follow-up questions...
...administrators represented here have written in vague generalities more appropriate to a president's annual report or the position paper of a Senate candidate than to a serious scholar's essay. Both public and private universities are represented and each undergoes a searching critique. The university must certainly follow one or another of the paths suggested for it in this journal...