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...heart and an elastic conscience. We see him first as a slim, fey, slightly bland youth of 18, living a sheltered life surrounded by tutors and priests. He progresses through the series like a prefab castle, adding pounds and psychological dimensions as if they were rooms. By the final segment, the slender, shy youth has become a man swathed in fat, so overbearing and overburdened that he can barely rise from his chair-much less to his earlier level of greatness. Michell won England's equivalent of the Emmy for his fascinating character study of the complex king...
...parade of women is equally fascinating. As Archbishop Cranmer puts it in the final segment: "There has been a great harvesting of queens in our time." While all of the actresses portraying Henry's sundry wives are extraordinarily good, there are two standouts in the series. Annette Crosbie as Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is perhaps the finest. As the young Spanish princess, she is appropriately shy and frightened; she ages gently into the grand old Queen, beloved of her subjects and even in his deepening hysteria for a son, by her husband and King. Finally...
...mustangs' plight may thankfully be offset by the nation's horse producers, who are currently maintaining a horse-population growth rate between 6% and 8% per year, making the American equine population the fastest-growing segment of animal agriculture...
...format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte to Eric Sevareid at CBS and Howard K. Smith at ABC. Brinkley will also do four one-hour specials a year...
...Berrigans' belligerence, and the actions of the Catonsville Nine, are a strictly Catholic phenomenon. They are not only a protest against the Vietnam war; they are also a defiance of the heavy-handed authoritarianism, the blind nationalism that makes the American Catholic community the most war-mongering segment of the nation. Goaded by the silence of his Church's hierarchy and of its hawkish flocks, the Catholic radical can become a desperado...