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DIED. Cathleen Nesbitt, 93, versatile British character actress whose career lasted 70 sparkling years on the London and Broadway boards; in London. "Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful," said the poet Rupert Brooke of Nesbitt at 24. Photographed by George Bernard Shaw, directed by the Shakespearean scholar Harley Granville-Barker, she began as an ingenue and ended in elegant dowager parts, most notably in the original My Fair Lady and the 1980-81 touring revival, which was her final appearance. "I haven't been known as a great actress," she said then. "But I've been...
...were, to a dramatic series of residences. All exploited the theme of light-filled space and pleasing simplicity with, as Neutra put it, "soul-refreshing" variations. His style and convictions were strong enough to adapt themselves to the residents, the climates and particularly the landscapes of his projects. The Nesbitt House in Los Angeles (1942), for instance, has a decidedly rustic ambience. The vigorous textures of rough brick and redwood board and batten predominate. The hard, angular lines of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs (1946) deliberately contrast with nature. The spindly steel columns, fragile-looking window walls and beams...
...Harrison's Higgins is urbane and amusing, a rare companion despite himself, but he is not a possible mate for Eliza Doolittle, who could well be his granddaughter. Indeed, he is lucky that he could find an actress old enough to play his own mother-the inimitable Cathleen Nesbitt, who was also in the original cast and who at 92 is still pouring the tea in her box at Ascot...
...Latinization of greater Miami (the Latin immigrants now represent 37.5%). And though the new violence was not directly connected with the recent influx of Cuban refugees, that influx threatened to put additional pressure on the neglected blacks. But the McDuffie killing was itself a cause of rage. Judge Lenore Nesbitt called it "a time bomb" when she granted a defense request to move the trial to Tampa...
...Board of Canada, dozens of artists doodle away. None produces characters so round or squeaky-cute as Disney's or as bawdy and animalistic as Bakshi's. Instead they often depict very real people in not-so-real situations. The best of these is Why Me?, the story of Nesbitt Spoon, an average CPA-type who learns from his doctor that he has only a short time to live--five minutes (and counting). Understandably, Mr. Spoon panics, and his creators have scripted their story so well that it matches perfectly the stages of impending death as described in Bob Fosse...