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...Joan Crawford cuts loose in a sanguinary shudder-show that suffers from a split personality. It was written by Robert Bloch (Psycho), but screams for the sure hand of Hitchcock; it aspires to the Grand Guignol of Baby Jane, but falls short of being droll. Yet despite foolish dialogue, blunt direction, and a fustian plot, there are moments of breath-stopping terror as the heads roll, at times almost literally...
...language are irritating at times, they make for superb writing at others. He is clearly in love with the "exciting ... inspiring" times, with the poet whose life he is describing, and with the "precious, irreplaceable," and "unparalleled" woman who ruled England during most of Shakespeare's life. Although this blunt, opinionated man does not seem to be the chosen explicator of the infinitely subtle Shakespeare, his book is a valuable, lucid addition to the biographics of the poet. It irritates as often as it enlightens, but it enlightens very often indeed...
...blunt rejoinder came promptly from Manhattan's prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "It should be re-emphasized," said Medical Director Henry T. Randall, "that breast cancer detected at an early stage and promptly and adequately treated is one of the most curable of human cancers...
Delicate Tasks. The orbiting lab is still a drawing-board dream, and few details have been settled on for sure. It will be a pressurized cylinder, about 25 ft. long and 10 ft. in diameter -approximately the size of a small house trailer. It will be attached to the blunt heat shield of one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's two-man Gemini capsules, and it will be heaved aloft by a hefty Titan III rocket, which, with its two solid-fuel boosters, develops as much as 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...advice on the subject was characteristically blunt. "Widening one's circle is not always a very 'nice' occupation. Let's face it. It involves losing contact with those who insist on remaining at dead center . . . Climbing is an activity that most people seem to think reprehensible. Well...