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...psychiatrists know, are related to character types, and most criminals lie on their stomachs. . . . The position of the hands and arms must not be neglected, and I recommend to those who have not tried it a loose embrace of the pillow, which may also be bitten and chewed from time to time...
...Arctic icefields off Newfoundland's east coast, hardy, wind-bitten swilers (sealers) were out on their annual seal hunt...
Brother Rat. In Madison, Wis., Mrs. Charles H. Showers, strolling along in a muskrat coat, was twice bitten by an enraged muskrat...
...behind the Englishmen.) Yet among all these there is no villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini. Instead, they have kept evil as a massive force--the German Army or War--against which everyone in the film is pitted; the result is a refreshing relief from the run-of-the-mill war movie technique...
...general strike, ostensibly in protest against the rising cost of living (up 25% in a year). Real reason: the Government had long wanted to halt spiraling prices but needed popular support to squelch the expected squawk from businessmen. It was all carefully arranged. Enrique Rodriguez, hard-bitten union boss, was summoned; he agreed to call a 24-hour general strike "in support of the Government." By special union dispensation, there was one exception: because Uruguayans take pride in courtesies to foreign tourists, buses moved foreign vacationists from ports to seaside resorts, as usual...