Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three scenes, nevertheless, the film abandons plot and sophistication, descends to low comedy, and becomes hilarious. Alec Guinness shines at these times, particularly where he tries youthfully to retrieve a lost badminton bird and ends up with the net tangled about his legs and feathers in his teeth. Though not exceptional for a Guinness picture, in such spots To Paris, With Love, rises above routine comedy...
...when the slamming samurai has foiled the villain and won his lady love (Kuniko Ikawa), do they leap into each other's arms? Not at all. The hero rides sadly away, and the sound track sings to the heroine: "Your hawk has flown away . . ./ The bold, dark bird that dare not dwell by your side/ That fears no enemy, nor pain, nor danger/ Yet dreads the wound of the shining sword of love." Tennyson would have loved...
...sporadic off-season flgihts. It reappeared a few evenings later on a stage when Blackstone the Magician lifted a silk cloth. A cry of dismay was heard in the balcony as thirty humorists, lured to the theater by free tickets, scrambled toward the steps to retrieve the bird. Backstage at the Colonial Theatre last Saturday, Blackstone recalled the theft and chuckled "We should do it again...
...upsurge in business has put a rosy glow on first-quarter corporate earnings. This was plain last week as some early-bird companies reported. General Tire & Rubber Co. announced that in its first fiscal quarter (from Dec. 1, 1954 through Feb. 28) it made a profit of $2,236,310 on sales of $63,574,233 v. a profit of $1,851,515 on sales of $44,130,274 a year ago. Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co., operating at about 85% of capacity in the first quarter v. 50% a year ago, said that its earnings are "much better" than...
...assistants, Mr. Nichols, was known as "the blind proofreader" because of his nearsightedness. Nichols once mistook a bird nest under the library's roof for a book he was trying to reach. After accidentally dislodging the nest, he called for pages to bring ladders and wasn't satisfied until both bird and nest were safely on the ground...