Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vivien Leigh is lashed about by the tremendous role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
...phrase, "Save the Peace," and then expound the party line on Palestine and Mr. Wallace's candidacy. I admit that to take an attitude of amused contempt is a temptation. However, it seems to me that the issues at stake call for a more intelligent and thoughtful approach than cat-calls and vaudeville and ill-considered cries of "We Want War." Edwin S. S. Sunderland...
...Crimson has much tough cat gut to out-batter during the next three weeks. No one is particularly worried about Brown this afternoon, but Cornell this Saturday poses a bigger problem. The veteran-studded Cayugans boast national reputations in their top men and have depth and prowess in their reserves. Along with Yale and Princeton who usher out the season in the middle of May, they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism...
...about his "coldness" (he decided to go on being himself). He has moments of intense concentration (members of his staff are trained to back out softly if they come in during such periods). He drinks nine to twelve cups of coffee a day, can (and does) take a cat nap any time...
...ideas for Stories, many of which he never wrote. Readers can wonder for themselves what Chekhov might have done with this synopsis: "A radical lady, who crosses herself at night, is secretly full of prejudice and superstition, hears that in order to be happy one should boil a black cat by night. She steals a cat and tries to boil...