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...mutual need. That is reflected in the acting of Wallach and O'Shea, who are matchlessly mated to their roles. Exquisitely coiffed, Wallach is superbly narcissistic, as if he were modeling for an effete art agency. Fat, defensive, submissive, O'Shea would appear to have the lesser part, but he proves himself the better actor in creating an image of a patient, badgered man too good to be untrue to his bullying friend...
...million loan for a dam in the Ivory Coast, $12 million worth of Food for Peace for Ghana, Peace Corps volunteers for the Congo, and help with a road in Zambia, as well as engraved silver bowls for heads of state and tie clips or cufflinks for lesser African functionaries. And everywhere there were African hands eager to be shaken...
...anything for sure about marriage, but I can almost always predict at what age or ages love, in its deepest form, will occur. I also make a prediction on the number of children one will have, and I look at other lines that are of interest but of lesser importance. I receive from 25c to $2.00 for my services, depending on how much the subject wants to know, but money is not the object. I am quite willing to impart what knowledge I have of the future whether there is money involved or not, for I feel a certain obligation...
...part of growth, with a chilly poetry that haunts the viewer like the ghost of Savonarola. Crucifixion, a 7-ft.-high cross with a black, rotting cadaver, skeined by a cobweb of raveled nylon stockings, comments acridly both on the original sacrifice and its loss of contemporary meaning, while lesser works recall that Conner tried marijuana in the early 1960s...
...series of articles that began last September, the paper told how six prominent Long Island Republicans and many lesser fry had been using public office to make a killing from Islip's surging land boom. Their favorite stunt was to buy residential land around Islip, rezone it for business, and then sell at a handsome profit. It was a coordinated effort. In one instance, the paper discovered, Town Attorney Walter Con-Ion, who was later appointed a state tax commissioner, drew up a resolution relaxing zoning restrictions on land he had bought in partnership with a Long Island hoodlum...