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Everlasting Need. The citizens of Cassano were surprised when the real criminal spoke up, but only the dullest reader will be. On the other hand, Author Ber-gengruen does not seem noticeably con> cerned with the mystery side of his morality whodunit. His novel's many-faceted problem embraces, besides conscience, might v. right, personal sacrifice, guilt, love and faith...
When an American goes to his first cricket match you can bet he'll come away thinking he's seen the world's dullest national game. But to all Englishman, things couldn't look more different. Cricket is to him--and has been almost since Magna Carta--the one sport truly beyond comparison. Some men like soccer, and some prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days...
...long remembrance of things past, for it was in Las Vegas that she loved and left Victor Mature, a local policeman. In their big confrontation scene, Jane delicately dilates her nostrils and Victor clenches his jaw so hard that his ears wiggle, thus making it clear to the dullest moviegoer that this is an incendiary passion...
...idealistic side, it is evident that science is now the new frontier . . . Almost every young doctor of any promise wants to 'do research.' To see his own name, even on the dullest paper, makes him a pioneer . . ." But research can get too big for its breeches. "[A] high-powered scientist said: 'Ten years ago I was happy; I used to go in the morning to my laboratory, wash my own glassware so that I knew that it was clean, do a precise, accurate, satisfying experiment . . . Now a team of girls washes my apparatus, so I am never...
...ominous offscreen voice introduces the picture and most of its characters, lingers over a definition of "vendetta" until the dullest schoolboy in the balcony can understand what it means. Then the movie spells out its story just as laboriously. Colomba (Faith Domergue), a proud Corsican beauty, determines to avenge her father's murder by members of the villainous Barricini family. She makes her brother (George Dolenz) the instrument of her revenge and, incidentally, the object of her more-than-sisterly affections...