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...Grass Is Greener. A champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes-those beastly rich Americans-with Gary Grant playing an earl who tries to save his wife from a fate worse than death, i.e., Robert Mitchum...
...Grass Is Greener. A champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes-those beastly rich Americans-with Gary Grant brilliantly playing an earl who tries to save his wife from a fate worse than death, i.e., Robert Mitchum...
...Grass is Greener (Grandon; Universal), as a London play, was a champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes: those beastly aggressive, filthy rich Americans. Such regional decoctions ordinarily do not travel well, but this one is conveyed to the U.S. public by Gary Grant, who could pour the stuff in a hair net, cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat during a polar gale, and never lose a bubble...
Harry had a glancing blow for Dwight Eisenhower ("No Eisenhower veto ever built a dam, or helped a farmer"), but his choicest epithets were reserved for Vice President Nixon: "Tricky Dicky Nixon is cut from the same cloth-don't make any mistake about that. Nixon is against the small farmer, against small business, against labor, against public housing, against public power. Come to think of it, I don't know what the hell he is for. And that bird still has the nerve to come to Texas and ask you to vote...
...today's apparent shortage in the midst of plenty can be placed on speculators, though they have pushed paper values in land up to an astounding half a trillion dollars. Lack of planning by cities and wasteful over-zoning by many suburban communities have contributed. Many of the choicest U.S. suburban towns keep out small-home buyers (whose children would cost the town more to educate than their parents would pay in taxes) by requiring two-acre lots, setting stiff building codes that make new houses expensive...