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...face of Long's overblown theatrics, Chairman Stennis maintained his customary dignity. The business of spearheading the attack on a fellow Senator was plainly saddening to him, and he said as much, recalling his part in the Senate's last censure case in 1954, when he was among those who pressed successfully for condemnation of the late Joseph McCarthy. In words reminiscent of his opening statement on that occasion, Stennis said last week: "If we pass up this matter, then some time, somewhere, in some way, something big will slip out of this chamber, and a lesser standard...
CASINO ROYALE. David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettit and Ursula Andress are all Bonds of one sort or another in this overblown 007 spoof with more herds than scenes...
Through TV, millions of Americans have become thoroughly familiar with sports they once knew only through the often unreliable and overblown prose of sportswriters. "I'd travel around in the 1920s and 1930s and tell people that pro football was a good game," says Illinois All-America Red Grange, "and they'd laugh at me. 'Did you ever see a game?' I'd ask them. 'Well, no, they'd say." Former New York Giants Halfback Frank Gifford, who did not come into the National Football League until 1952, remembers going home to California...
...trails after the sailor, she and the stone wall traipse from Greece to Alexandria to dullest Africa, for no other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers...
Deadlier than the Male. Bulldog Drummond has led a charmed life, alas. In the early '20s, when he first came to public attention in the novels of Sapper (H. C. McNeile), he was an overblown Blimp who hated "Bolshies" and took peculiar pleasure in flogging "Hebrews." In 1929, the cur was portrayed by Ronald Colman as a sort of homey Holmes - a friendly legal beagle who spent more time rolling his big sad eyes at the lady customers than he did hounding down the villain. In Deadlier than the Male, the adaptable Drummond shows up as the type...