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...villain of the piece, a Navy-hating senator, remarks that the burning and sinking of several carriers at the Coral Sea and Midway is not an argument for more carriers. As it happens, the most striking parts of this film show our carriers being severely damaged. The argument of the movie's admirals is that they intend to carry the war to the Japanese homeland; this never happens in the film, and in the actual war the Army Air Forces did some bombing too. If the movie settles the interservice conflict for you, there is a recruiting van full...
...photographs. For well-heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third entrepreneur arrived with a collection of black cloaks over his arm for renting to short-sleeved women judged by the doorkeeper insufficiently dressed to enter the basilica. (After the hawker had made friends with the doorman, few prosperous-looking women got to see St. Peter...
...them down on paper. Scottie's world was a cheerful place where everything fell into intricate designs of delicately colored ink. Strange and luxuriant plants spread across his drawings with the spontaneous elaboration of a Persian carpet; forms, half-vegetable, half-animal, grew out of each other like coral in a submarine grotto; funny little birds, fish and gargoyles were as minutely detailed as fingerprints...
...University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, three instructors were dismissed in May, 1948. All three were supporters of the Wallace party, and charged that they were victims of a "political purge...
...rugby week has its drawbacks. For one thing the teams must interrupt their revelries to compete just often enough to be permanently exhausted. For another, the coral sand on the rugby field is abrasive and causes painfully skinned knees when the players fall forward. They also fall backward...