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...Macdonald wrote allegorical, spiritual fantasy in a language that can only be described as lyric and dignified. Archetypes people his tales--like Photogen, the "day boy" and Nycteris, the "night girl" whom a witch raised on "wine dark as a carbuncle, and pomegranates, and purple grapes, and birds that dwell in marshy places; and she played to her mournful tunes, and caused wailful violins to attend her, and told her sad tales, thus holding her ever in an atmosphere of sweet sorrow...
...scrub oak, it was discovered in 1962 by a little girl looking for shiny stones for her collection. What subsequent explorers of the 16-ft. by 16-ft. grotto have found promises to be a great deal more significant: the habitat of the earliest known manlike creatures ever to dwell in Europe...
...while the fans might dwell on that bouncing puck that slipped between the goaltender's legs, the muffed shot or the errant clearing pass, Cleary and his kids can look back and remember a good season. As Cleary is fond of saying, "We accomplished an awful lot of things that other Harvard teams haven't done...
...appeal, the solid base of support for him still round the nation. "I wish just one candidate would run as an out-and-out Nixon man," he said. But Clawson's view of Nixon remains confined to the cool, ordered corridors where the President's staff members dwell. There are few men on the Hill who have got this appealing picture of the man in the Oval Office...
...sink principle of comedy. Like its many raucous predecessors, Blazing Saddles is a thing of bits and bits-some good, some awful-pinned to a story line that sags like a tenement clothesline. The movie tends to improve in the retelling, as memory edits out ineptitudes, the better to dwell on moments of glory...