Word: deathlessness
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...Trassy's" hair really GROWS when a key is turned in her back. The puppets have their own lines-eight or ten deathless phrases at the pull of a string. The toy car is not pulled by a string, not even attached to an electric cord with controls on one end, but operated by the young master by shining a flashlight on a built-in solar cell. The bear flees the juvenile hunter aimlessly around the room, uttering real bellows of pain when the blunted bullets find their mark. And while six-year-old space cadets are blasting...
...baby carriage and propped up a life-size doll. Then they dressed it up with all the grown-up ladies' clothes that Mama had stored away in the attic ages ago. One little boy skipped and jumped over to a big blackboard, chalked up those deathless words: MARY LOVES BILL...
...Club opened, I received a telephone call from his secretary, asking me to translate a sentence into Latin for him. When she revealed his desire to emulate Horace and rear a lasting monument by putting on his door "If you don't swing, don't ring" in deathless Latin chased in metal, I explained in vain the impossibility of translating slang. So I came up with Si non oscillas noli tintinnare and forgot about...
...scattered applause but no shouting for the director. As the film spread out in new openings, reactions were marvelously at odds. People in one southern town nearly beat up the theater manager because they found "8½" so frustratingly incomprehensible. But so-called intellectual reviewers began chiseling out deathless lines of praise ("chief work of a magician of genius") and tracing the influences on Fellini of Resnais and Bergman, Proust and Joyce...
...merriest oatsmobile that ever came down the track, but Dean and Lana make a surprisingly smooth entry; Paul Ford is hilarious as a birdbrained, spaniel-eyed, llama-lipped pony player; and Walter Matthau has his moments as the big hairball who runs the syndicate-among them the deathless moment when, with a casual flick of his manicured fingers, he announces superbly: "Give dis genulman eighteen tousan' dolluhs fum petty cash." The whole cast obviously enjoyed making the picture, and most spectators will find that the pleasure is mutuel...