Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chap who finally does him in is Ralph Richardson, wearing his best pair of sly boots. He plays a fussy old sorcerer, frail but doughty, and a trifle wistful because he never mastered the trick of turning lead into gold, which would have provided him with a more comfortable castle for his sunset years. He has a certain fellow feeling for the ogre, who is also an old crock who has outlived his time. Richardson's best speech is an evocation of the days when the skies were aflap with dragons and all the earth seemed touched by magic...
...White House might have quietly dropped the battle, as it did with Warren Richardson, a onetime lobbyist for the stridently anti-Zionist Liberty Lobby, who had been nominated as an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. Reagan also might have yielded to compromise after a quick, overwhelming defeat, as he did after the Senate's 96-to-0 rejection of his proposed Social Security cuts. But the President felt pressed to fight for Lefever, senior aides said, because the opposition to him was largely "ideological." Reagan, they added, saw the vote as a referendum on his own beliefs...
...sits in a chair on the stage of the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower The ater, Ralph Richardson somewhat resembles Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. His legs are squared apart and appear sturdily embedded in stone. His arms are welded to the arm rests, yet they seem mobilized to catapult him into action. His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time. As with Churchill, a pixie lurks beneath Richardson's countenance, momentarily threatening to bolt into some unpredictable bit of mischief...
...Early Days, Richardson plays Sir Richard Kitchen, a cantankerous imp bobbing and weaving his way through errant mists of memory. From moment to moment, Storey's play is both allusive and elusive - rather like hearing a few bars of music that suddenly break off and then later recur with a disconcertingly poignant resonance. Or like observing an ancient marble statue where the missing arm, leg or head must be pieced together by the viewer's imagination...
...Archibald Cox '34 is named special Watergate prosecutor by the Justice Department's Attorney General-designate Elliot L. Richardson...