Word: mcshane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film's romance is the narrow province of the guide (Ian McShane) and an American businesswoman (Suzanne Pleshette). Between their mooning glances, the viewer is given a fast shuffle of Venice, London, Brussels and Rome. The scenes flick by like telephone poles seen from a moving window; Director Mel Stuart is more interested in drawing gross caricatures of his gawking, squawking, hamburger-hungry tourists...
...Hampshire bounced back only 45 seconds later to regain the lead on a 20-foot wrist shot by sophomore wing Mike McShane, and increased its lead at 17:15 when Bob Brandt drove past Gurry and beat Bruce Durno with a high wrist shot...
...Leningrad flat during the siege of 1942. The girl loves the would-be engineer, but he leaves, and she marries the would-be poet, but he fails. Thirteen years later, the situation is reversed. To compound the confusion, the cast is as incorrigibly British (Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane) as the play is Russian. This particular brand of Soviet drama should have been exiled to Siberia...
...onetime Princeton basketball player who practiced law for ten years in New Richmond, Wis., Doar is a model of raw courage. At Ole Miss with Chief U.S. Marshall McShane, when mobs tried to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, James Meredith, Doar risked his own life three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes...
Nothing made McShane prouder of his men in that crisis than the fact that though many of them were pro-segregationist Southerners, not a single one failed to live up to his oath and 100 were injured. As for McShane himself, Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach calls him "typecast" for the job. "I have never seen him falter under any kind of fire," says Katzenbach. "I always have the feeling about Jim that he takes his oath of office all over every morning...