Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire school-aid package was sugar-coated by two provisions dear to most Congressmen: extension of the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act; extension of federal aid to school districts that have large numbers of children of federal employees, including servicemen. With this bill at the ready, White House Aide Larry O'Brien snapped: "Let's have this damn thing out right here...
...most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend in Sussex-who domi nates the audience as a waving cobra fascinates a mouse. With his small, reptilian grin and oily suppleness, he conveys the immemorial image of the big political snake, the everlasting reason why you can't fight city hall...
...funeral of Blenholt, the Commissioner of Sewers, whom young Max Balkan reveres as a man who made good. Max is an idling dreamer full of fast-buck schemes, who meets the disaster expected by everyone but himself. Some of the family scenes sound like Arthur Kober's My Dear Bella rewritten by Nathaniel West, but all of the novel that is likely to remain with the reader is the figure of Max Balkan's father, the extragedian of the Yiddish theater who now wears clown makeup and carries sandwich boards for a beauty parlor...
...plot centers on a clash of principles and personalities between a messy old dear of a pathologist (Fredric March) and the slick young bug-detective (Ben Gazzara) called in to ease him out. The new boy is appalled by the unscientific squalor he finds in the pathology lab, which is one of the principal diagnostic tools in any hospital's kit. He lights a hot fire under March, but the old boy stubbornly refuses to budge. "My face is turning purple trying to swallow you," he rages, "but I will! I'm staying!" And the young man just...
...poor child is terrified-apparently she didn't see Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which included the same scene. She screams and wheels hysterically away. Her stepmother comes running. They go back to the summerhouse. The body is gone. "You poor dear," her stepmother says, "you've had a hallucination." And next morning the stepmother's doctor, a personable bachelor who comes to dinner almost every day, goes even further. "Your mind," he says gravely to the girl, "has suffered a blow which could affect it permanently...