Word: drives
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Those in Peril. Father Renard suggests that the more serious excesses of the mechanized libido be added to Catholicism's list of confessional sins. Among them: speeding, passing without sufficient visibility, driving while intoxicated. In sum, concludes Renard, the Christian must remember that operating an automobile is a human activity that must be "in harmony with our vocation as a spiritual being." To drive home his point, he quotes an auto-age version of the Sermon on the Mount...
...someone gets in your way at a green light, let him be first at the next light. And whosoever shall try to pass thee imprudently with a less powerful car, slow down to let him do it more easily. I say unto you, love your enemies, love those who drive dangerously. They are in peril...
...shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation. Heading for divorce, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) is a casualty of the war between the sexes. The same calamity befell his old pal Oscar, an alimony-poor sportswriter with a rambling eight-room flat on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Out of pity and penury, he invites Felix to share his lair. At this point Simon pulls the switch that brightens the screen: the partnership becomes a parody of a failing marriage. Oscar is the kind of host who offers his card-playing buddies green sandwiches that were "either very...
Miss Balter said that withholding contributions would not slow construction of the Fourth house. She noted that it will be built with the contributions from special fund drive...
...whole, though, the company has been directed to play that text for all it is worth, and most of the principals are equal to the task. As an ensemble, they share only one common fault, perhaps an inevitable consequence of the production's drive for lucidity: at one time or another, most of the actors show a tendency to declaim rather than converse. As a result, the overall pacing of dialogue is sometimes slowed, and an occasional moment of insight or laughter is dimmed by pretentious delivery. Far more often, however, the line readings succeed in translating Shaw's stylized...