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...rest of the picture, involving about 90 minutes more of the customer's time and pretty nearly $3,000,000 of the producer's money, is written to the thesis that Audrey Hepburn is really just a dud who can happen to wear duds. It's a hard one to prove. Actress Hepburn not only looks her limpid best from first to last; she also does some snazzy dancing (she is better solo than with Astaire), and even sings effectively in a sort of absinthetic Sprechstimme with a touch of wood alcohol in the low notes...
...that the draft be ended at the earliest possible moment with the national safety." Some Democratic strategists hoped that Stevenson's end-the-draft call would draw the dramatic reaction of Ike's 1952 "I will go to Korea," but they were disappointed. The proposal was a dud; it was sharply criticized as a perilous panacea that would stir up neutralism abroad and preparedness letdown at home...
...Press Board Award for foreign correspondence, he was lost for four days behind enemy lines. In Indo-China, where the French "were so disorganized they let me fly their planes," a cyclist threw a bomb under the restaurant table that he was sharing with three officials (it was a dud...
...Silvers Show) Hiken, who whimsically suggests a show called A Million or Your Life'. "The contestant will stand in front of the TV camera and face two gun barrels. He will have a string leading to the triggers on the two barrels. One will be loaded with a dud containing a check for $1,000,000-the other with a live 37mm. shell guaranteed to tear his head off. If he pulls the wrong string-kaputt...
...elephant. Under Godot's metaphysical counterpane, believing Christian, doubting pessimist, left-winger and existentialist can all find reasons to nestle for warmth. But whether Godot stands for God or simply for man's unconquerable hope, whether Waiting for Godot is a philosophic depth bomb or a theatrical dud, clearly the play has not a casual but a thematic plotlessness, and not an unintentional but a planned garrulity...