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...inhibited" patient, Salter prescribes "excitatory" exercises. First & foremost is "feeling-talk." The sentence, "Today is Friday" is dry, inhibited "fact-talk." Salter would rather hear his patient getting some emotional outlet by saying, "Thank heavens, today is Friday and the weekend is here." There is also "facial talk": if a cat purrs when it is happy and a dog howls when its paw is stepped on, so should a man-or at any rate, scowl. From this it is.a mere step to another Salter prescription: "Contradict and attack. When you differ with someone, do not simulate agreeability...
...Fort Worth, police received a routine letter from Twin Falls, Idaho authorities inquiring about a suspected bad-check passer and describing her as "25, 115 Ibs., 5 ft. 5 in. She wore a low-cut dress with short skirt, making it very hard to gain a description of her facial features...
...vigor. To a grueling weekly job, he brings a boundless appetite for work and dazzling stores of energy. Cracks Bob Hope: "I think he ought to be investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission . . . Unfortunately, he's got talent, too." Besides being an excellent master of ceremonies, a facial contortionist and a helter-skelter clown, Berle can sing, dance, juggle act, do card tricks, imitations and acrobatics, ride a unicycle and mug under water...
Police, fearing that the old staircase in the Martin home might collapse, barred visitors from the house. The street had to be roped off but the pilgrims still came, hoping to dip handkerchiefs, rosaries, even facial tissues in the scant droplets that sometimes fell when the child kissed the head. Only Shirley Anne's grandmother claimed they had the healing virtue: they had cured her neuralgia, she said...
...less funny because it tries so hard to be. It is crudely and noisily staged, gives up satire for slapstick, proves even more alcoholic than macabre. It owes its few real laughs to what Thomas Mitchell, as the undertaker, does with his facial muscles and his vocal cords...