Word: patch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie about Churchill, even a standard patch-up of newsreel clips and familiar speeches, could fail to be moving and dramatic, for he was one of the few consciously theatrical performers in the history of democratic government. His grave and measured voice, somehow made even more sonorous by his lisp, and his majestic, defiant prose gave each of his countrymen a sense of historic purpose and helped keep alive a reassuring belief in the possibility of individual heroism throughout the mass slaughter of World War II. To see a film clip of, say, Neville Chamberlain...
...Finest Hours, Jack LeVien, who produced the film, and Peter Baylis, who directed it, have opted for something far better than the standard patch-up. Their most startling achievement is to have made a successful color film about a man whose active political life was largely over before color photography came into general use. The black-and-whiteness of other historical documentaries distorts the visual history they are supposed to record: the human eye could see color in 1925, even if the movie camera could...
...restage it," Nichols would say when they hit a foggy patch. "No, let me rewrite it," Simon would insist. Next month Simon and Nichols will be working together again, on Simon's new play The Odd Couple, which will star Art Carney and Walter Matthau. "It's about two guys who are having trouble with their wives," says Nichols. "You never see the wives; you just see the other girls, just like in real life...
Sensible Heat. Last September Feisal attended the Alexandria conference of Arab nations and held a series of private meetings with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser to patch up the dispute between their two countries over Yemen's civil war-which last week finally headed for an armistice. Back home, Feisal was depressed to find that King Saud and his sons had been up to their old tricks. Finally, Feisal decided to break his long-kept oath in favor of the national interest. He ordered the national council convened, and while the fatwa was being drawn up, Feisal...
...Russian leaders, charged Barry, are doubly dangerous to the U.S. in their apparent determination to patch up differences with Red China. Said he: "This Administration once faced an enemy plagued with disunity and trouble, and it followed a policy that brought back unity and greater strength." In Pikesville, Md., Goldwater cried: "We bailed our Communist enemy out of a serious economic crisis with that wheat deal and with our aid. Instead of letting the Soviet Union and the Communist world stew in their own trouble, we actually bailed them...