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...with bombs or bands, as they have in the past, but quietly and assuredly, like friends of the family. American tourists, who were driven from Europe by the dollar devaluations and the oil embargo of the early 1970s, are finding their way back in force. From Sicily to Skye and Positano to the Parthenon, the accents of Dixie and down East can be heard again in the pubs and bistros and trattorie, in cathedrals, castles, stately homes, museums, opera houses and a million stores...
...which is a kind of acting, while their inevitable exclusion from the satisfaction of parent hood gives them a grudge against society, and therefore an instinctive sympathy with efforts to overthrow it. I remember reading an account of [Biographer] Lytton Strachey sitting on a rock in the Isle of Skye, weeping over a lost lover he had shared with Maynard Keynes, and thinking to myself how perfectly they got their own back, Keynes by inventing an economic theory which, after a period of spurious prosperity, must infallibly bankrupt the countries which adopt it, and Strachey by overturning the gods...
...tandem can trace their names back to the ancient lineage of the MacLeod clan. For centuries the MacLeods have resided on the Isle of Skye, one of those primeval volcanic islands that make up in the Inner Hebrides chain off the northern coast of Scotland. "A MacLeod is always welcome there," says John, whose sister actually visited the Isle of Skye last spring and was cordially welcomed by the dour Highlanders...
...speed but he has a knack of finding the seam in zone defenses that he attributes to the perspective he gained while playing quarterback. His ability to catch the ball under pressure would undoubtedly earn him the nickname "the wee ice mon" if he played on the Isle of Skye eleven...
...memories of his old TV show Peter Gunn will affirm, Edwards also has a knack for vivid casting in secondary roles. The Carey Treatment has nice character bits by Pat Hingle as a Boston police captain and Skye Aubrey as a spaced-out nurse. Miss Aubrey is throaty, sexy and the boss's daughter (her father is MGM President Jim Aubrey). Moreover, Jennifer Edwards, who adroitly plays a school chum of the abortion victim, is the director's daughter. Seldom has traditional Hollywood nepotism paid off so handsomely for the audience...