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...long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute-a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists like to argue that bats are humanity's benefactors because they gobble vast quantities of insects, rare is the man who even bothers to listen. Soon, even the naturalists may moderate their enthusiasm, for the U.S. Public Health Service has produced scientific backing for the bat's repulsive reputation...
...ethics of the film a bit confusing, but they are bound to get a bang out of The Albatross, which is indeed a gorgeous gadget. Made entirely of impregnated paper, it checks out at 200 m.p.h. and looks like a cross between a blimp, a helicopter, a giant bat and a 19th century resort hotel. It even has a side porch...
...Their secret was depth. Manipulating his players with military precision, Rookie Manager Ralph ("The Major") Houk demonstrated an uncanny ability to find the right man for the job. And whatever the job, the right man usually was a catcher-one of a remarkable Yankee trio whose versatility, both at bat and in the field, is unmatched in baseball history. In a season when both major leagues can boast fewer than half a dozen topflight catchers, the three best belong to the Yankees: ·YOGI BERRA. At 36 the oldest of the Yankee catchers, stumpy...
...subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse and carved with demoniac exuberance, careens through the night like a colossal bat out of hell-but soundlessly, and in slow motion, so that it seems to be floating tunelessly through an interminable nightmare...
...quack. "Just as the Anglo* goes to the folk curist only in the last stages of cancer when everything else has failed, the Latin American goes to the physician only after all else has failed," said Madsen. "He thinks as much of penicillin as we do of bat wings...