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...adaptation of The Lark from the French of Jean Anouilh. Her previous roles, no matter how complex, had kept within the limits of "colloquial drama." She had played people of life size in a theater of the norm, and she had only to cut herself to make her characters bleed. Joan, however, was not merely a human being, into whose feelings an actress can properly project her own. She was also a historic idea, a giant abstraction. To bring her alive would require no little of that art divine that made the statue of Galatea move. Julie knew that...
High horsepower is a necessity for today's gadget-laden cars. The new automatic transmission, power brakes, power steering, power seat, and power window lift already bleed as much as 10 to 20 h.p. from the engine. And there is no stopping the gadgeteers: the latest air-conditioning units take another 10 h.p. to cool the air inside the car. Apart from the power-robbing gadgets, few engines ever develop horsepower figures contained in the advertising blurbs. Most automakers measure horsepower by means of a dynamometer: the engine is stripped of its load, ideally tuned and hooked up directly...
Harry McCormick, 56, of the Dallas Morning News, is a police reporter who still affects the once-fashionable cynicism of his calling. "I don't want to be anything but a police reporter," says he. "If the thing you're covering can't bleed, you can't write a story about it. Chambers of Commerce and Community Chests don't bleed...
...refusing to talk about the future until something happens at Geneva, the British ignored or refused to recognize the possibility that the Communists might drag out the talks indefinitely, as they did at Panmunjom-and more profitably. Last week the Communists seemed to be quite content to bleed France a little whiter, in the hope that such bleeding would make the French more pliable...
Other witnesses testified that later, Griffiths decided that the prisoner whose ear had been lopped off was going to bleed to death. He did not want that to happen. "This man must be shot," said the captain. The prisoner's handcuffs were unlocked and an officer told him to run. "Shoot!" came the order, and the man was shot dead...