Word: cobweb
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...18th century piece of marquetry. To satisfy a current craze for phrenologist's heads, an excellent fake is now circulating heavily in London and New York in three sizes. Advertising the phrenology clinic of one C. Fuller and dated 1882, the porcelain is artificially cracked in a cobweb pattern and the printing is a tastefully faded blue. One of the first of them turned up on Manhattan's Third Avenue last winter, selling at $125; in June there were dozens around London at $70; last week they hit the Flea Market at the same price...
...blame? Partly Cassel, mostly Director Philippe de Broca. As before, De Broca has cast Cassel as a sort of Don Juan in diapers. He plays the younger son in a cheery Charles Addams family that inhabits a large, sunny, 19th century cobweb littered with charming bits of bric-a-brac and squalling testimonials to the efficacy of the hero's family motto: "Fructify!" The family lives in a dream world all its own, posing for imaginary deathbed scenes of famous men. playing baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero...
...high-school senior at Professional Children's School, Susie stands 5 ft., weighs 96 Ibs. No theatrical novice, she began her career at 14 in an off-Broadway production. She played Juliet on TV when she was only 15, and has already appeared in two movies, The Cobweb and the forthcoming Picnic. Though she was swamped with movie offers after opening night, she will not do another one until next summer...
...confirmed by two twelve-year-old boys who had seen strange men carrying heavy cases into a vacant building. Detectives quietly swooped on the building and in a cobweb-hung cellar found 45 ammunition boxes and twelve larger cases containing Bren and Sten guns. Atop one case lay a loaded .38 revolver, its owner evidently having recently fled. In the city of Dublin next day, newspaper editors received an official communiqué from the I.R.A.'s "Adjutant General" Diarmid Macdiarmada reporting "a successful raid by a party of ten volunteers, all [of whom] have now been accounted...
Though failing in its overall effect, Cobweb has in its favor some sharply etched scenes, e.g., the dramatic clash of wills between Patient Kerr and Dr. Widmark during an analytic session. Veteran Lillian Gish, as a wig-wearing termagant determined to be on the winning side in any quarrel, gives the most stylish performance in the film...