Word: bitely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...
...beyond the comprehension of innocent minds. Mark Twain and Grimm succeeded by stressing the differences between the child's and the adult's world. Disney perhaps would have been incapable of tackling such subjects without diminishing in some measure-as he did with Mary Poppins-their hard bite of inner reality. He stressed the sameness of the two worlds, ignored or abolished the differences, reconciled the generations. If at times the results were mawkish, Disney scarcely gave it a thought. He saw his own role as the fantasist animating the warm dreams that men and children refuse...
This, Wilder's 20th movie, both climaxes and redeems a career that has produced such diverse films as The Lost Weekend and Some Like it Hot. It embodies all that is best in Wilder: the polish of Sabrina, the bite of Ace in the Hole, and the sentimentality of The Apartment. Plus it adds a new brick to Wilder's pile: understatement...
Poverty itself is both suffocating and ugly, and when its portrait is drawn by the victims, no one can doubt its reality. But there can be such a thing as too much detail, particularly if the details do not vary much. One rat bite can serve for a hundred. The assorted Ríoses are sometimes indistinguishable; the reader may find himself turning back to the chapter heading to see which one is talking now. He may get lost, too, in the endless procession of Ríos swains, lovers, husbands and cash customers, and in the steady passages between...
...Embezzlers may "average" their incomes for federal tax purposes-just like any other taxpayer who would otherwise face an unusually big bite for an unusually big year. According to the Supreme Court, an embezzler must pay taxes on what he steals. Apparently anticipating this situation, an embezzler of state sales taxes asked the Internal Revenue Service whether he could use the averaging provision that Congress enacted in 1964. Without revealing his identity, the IRS reported that the law bars averaging only for such specific items of income as bets, bequests, gifts and capital gains. Since the list fails to mention...