Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard ship there are no signs of acting, but the movie does sag a bit into detect able histrionics when Akim Tamiroff, as a cunning Red warlord, shows up as a negotiator and puts on a dazzling display of inscrutability. The months wear on, and Lieut. Commander Todd begins to understand the superiority of spit to polish. At last, with the courage of a heart made whole, Todd runs the battered vessel past artillery-lined riverbanks on a wild, 140-mile nighttime dash to sea. It is all history now, but the capable direction of Michael (Around the World...
...When the book is finished the people fade, but the riddles of existence and the cruelties of love remain as vivid images. And Alexandria remains as well, with its dusttormented streets, its lemony sunlight, where even the sulky young "struggle for breath and in every summer kiss they can detect the taste of quicklime...
...water-diviner was given temporary prominence when he claimed to be able to detect ammunition dumps on the French coast. Since Hitler was queer for occult arts, Military Intelligence was told to furnish a Hungarian astrologer with the birth dates of high-ranking German officers. This piece of nonsense led to the useful discovery that the War Office's list of enemy officers was pretty much made up of dead or retired Germans...
...Superman is not, of course, mere comedy, and the play is susceptible to several levels of interpretation. On the surface, Shaw has built a comedy to explode the popular assumption that man pursues woman. Actually, it's the other way around, Shaw says, as any numbscull might detect. But the issue goes beyond the simple mechanics of who traps whom, sexually speaking...
...found some, of the nuts in one of her bags and opened them to show to her family. Her trouble: allergy to cashews, which contain an 011 called cardal. Say the reporting doctors: U.S. travelers, now going to the tropics in increasing numbers, should be on guard. ¶ To detect cases of phenylketonuria (one of the few preventable causes of mental retardation) early enough to begin effective treatment with diet or drugs, the College of Medical Evangelists and Los Angeles City Health Department began a routine test for all infants taken to a child clinic. A drop of ferric chloride...