Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tread & Butter. On the Belgian-Netherlands frontier, a smuggler hauling 1,700 lbs. of butter drove through customs without stopping, put the skids to customs men's attempts to catch up by sowing the road behind him with globs of butter, dumped 200 lbs. before he finally ran out of gas and surrendered...
...last week, Archie was magnanimous as always. "Durelle is one of the very best I ever fought," he said. "He hurt me every time he hit me. In the first round I said to myself, 'This can't be me!', but something told me I could catch him later on. He can have a rematch any time...
Hingle (as J.B.), Raymond Massey as Mr. Zuss (the balloon salesman who plays God), Nan Martin as J.B.'s wife, and Christopher Plummer as Nickels (the popcorn vendor who portrays Satan) are all excellent. Boris Aronson's set is magnificent; Miss Ballard's costumes catch the proper blend of the gaudy and grotesque; David Amram's music and Tharon Musser's lighting lend almost surrealistic overtones to the drama. And Kazan ringmasters his menagerie with the genius which has earned him his reputation...
...others, such as Halliday's white-knuckled attempt to summarize a scenario that has never been written, that are tensely moving. Elsewhere, at times, the main story is wordy and under-dramatized. Despite Rosemary Harris' period appeal as the wife, the flashbacks seem inadequate, do more to catch a half-legendary Jazz Age mood than to explain a disintegrating writer. What destroyed any such writer must go beyond mere high-stepping idiocies to the full lure of wealth and high life that he succumbed to, and it must go beneath the killing froth of a marriage...
...CATCH AS CATCH CAN, by Frances and Richard Lockridge (Lippincott; $2.75), "is a short and attractive tale [of ] persecution and chase...