Word: deftest
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...stalks the praying mantis. The film, winds up with the celebrated fight between the mongoose and the cobra which Paramount interpolated as an allegory in The Letter. It lacks unity but even so is a brilliant collection of facts, much easier to remember and much more interesting than the deftest spoken lecture. Best shots: an ant getting down into the ant-heap with a splinter ten times as big as itself; a Pirhana fish, no bigger than your hand, eating 120 Ib. of pork in six minutes...
...Monica, could not leave well enough alone; followed her mother-in-law, and by malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling did she bring them together again, finding in the process a deep affection and necessity for dark Hester...