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Then one day when Anita was 13, fate dealt her a blow that sent her reeling. A child on the street, using a street child's dialect and detail, told her the facts of life. Totally unprepared for such reality, she was plunged into a year of adolescent hell. Disillusioned with her parents and friends, she went to church twice a day, often knelt for hours at a stretch. At length she announced that she was going to become a Carmelite, an order of nuns which requires complete seclusion. Soon afterward, at 14, she had a nervous breakdown...
...coffee tables, recording the faces of newly wakened men as they hear their assignment, or of worn-out men telling precisely how they carried it out. The sound track drinks in the clumsy quips, the murmurs of assent or pleasure, the grain of each man's character and dialect and humor and attitude as he replies to his questioner. Skillfully cut, this splendid material is wisely allowed to dominate with its own instructive image and sound the neutral, informative voice of the commentator...
...Much To Do. The school bell rang. The little girls bustled onto their narrow benches. Sister Elizabeth called the roll. Instead of "Hier!", the little girls answered "Ici", and giggled at the unfamiliar sound. Then Sister Elizabeth spoke in French, translating phrase by phrase into the Alsatian German dialect...
...Listen, Kid!" Irma has been rattling around in Fanny Brice's brain ever since she was Fanny Borach of Forsyth Street, daughter of a saloonkeeper. She had risen to singing dialect songs in the Columbia Burlesque when Florenz Ziegfeld, who knew a good thing, hired her for his Follies. Once, asked about her career, she roared...
...George Burns are riots of unbowdlerized storytelling. Though Holtz can come up with cracks like "I hope your marriage lasts as long as mine seems," his forte is not quotable nifties, but lengthy yarns, (whose point scarcely matters) that he tenderly unrolls like priceless fabrics richly embroidered with dialect. Fall guy of some of the best of them is Sam Lapidus, whose name Holtz lifted from a building sign 20 years ago. Typical Lapidus yarn (one fourth actual size): Finishing a stylish dinner, Sam and a friend from Tzicagi (Chicago) are confronted for the first time in their lives with...