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...Works fine. When the professor drops a flubber ball on the floor, it bounces back to the height it was dropped from, goes even higher on the second bounce, hits the ceiling on the third, and on the 50th would probably sail to the moon. The professor installs a crude flubberator in a model T Ford, impetuously bounces off into the blue: with flubber the flivver can actually...
...offered him a coat "after I've worn it a little longer." Whether mimicking the old boys or mulcting them, whether hiding them in sacks and clouting them or-caught out-gaining their pardon by pretending to breathe his last, Scapin is never stumped. Full-bloodedly, unabashedly crude, Les Fourberies is something to race through in nonstop French, to keep ricocheting with nonstop foolishness...
...Hoodlum Priest (Murray-Wood; United Artists). The divine spark often burns in trash, and it burns with a still and terrible loveliness in this loud, crude, violent and sentimental cops-and-robbers picture, the work of an energetic actor-producer named Don Murray and a talented televeteran named Irvin Kershner...
Wolcott Gibbs is a conspicuously less exciting parodist, and some of his work is too crude to observe anything but the most superficial aspects of his subjects; yet he does well enough with J. P. Marquand. "Outside my window the river lay opalescent in the twilight, but for a moment I saw it as a dark and relentless torrent bearing me on into the unknowable future, and I shuddered," is not remarkable for its wit, but the next sentence--"I didn't want to get married; I just wanted to go back to Harvard"--excuses the rest. I like...
...product of the Civil War, although he had appeared on the 19th century scene some two decades before the war began. In 1842 Herbert Ingram, an English newspaperman, established the Illustrated London News, the world's first successful pictorial news weekly. Ingram's staff artists sent crude sketches from the field that were then engraved, in a leisurely way, to appear as illustrations alongside the printed accounts of important events. By 1860, the U.S. had three successful examples of graphic journalism: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper's Weekly and the New York Illustrated News. Thus...