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...KILDARE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.) *Lauren Bacall guest-stars as a journalist stricken with a crippling disease...
Brilliant performances from the entire cast sustain the tension of the tragedy. In particular, the actors effectively use their eyes to capture subtle shifts in emotion. Shamila Tagore presents Donamayee as an entirely believable, affectionate young wife--and as a terror-stricken "goddess." Satyajit Ray, who also directed the Apu films, paces this picture to underline changes in mood; for example, Donamayee pauses when asked to cure a child and then reaches out to him with an instinctive maternal gesture...
Meanwhile Fermoyle brightens a poverty-stricken country parish and becomes a secretary to Cardinal Glennon of Boston, a role played by Director John Huston with a ripsnorting vitality that all but steals the show. Smoking an expensive cigar, raising the devil with a young curate, or getting riotously seasick en route to Rome, Huston is superb. He wangles a Vatican appointment for his bright young aide, but Fermoyle, inconsolable over Mona, gets a two-year leave from the priesthood. Such leave is rarely granted in fact, and even in the movie Fermoyle is still bound by vows of celibacy. While...
...Hemisphere picks up the trail of the latest head of state to visit Washington, Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, but bases the main part of the story on a look at the poverty-stricken country that has persuaded the U.S. to allocate it more aid per capita than any other Latin American nation...
...furs to apartments, thousands upon thousands of Italians have run up staggering debts. Nearly every day the Italian press discovers another case of someone obli gated to pay out more monthly on cambiali than he actually earns. Almost everyone does his part, but the heaviest plungers are the poverty-stricken Sicilians and the migrants to the rich north, who are dazzled by luxury goods and modern household appliances. Last year 8,160,546 cambiali were dishonored, 10% more than...