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Awakened by the screams of his children, Farmer Panfilo Castro scrambled out of bed and groped for the kerosene lamp. In the flickering light, he saw a winged shadow dart toward his youngest child, then flit out through the door...
Quick, Henry, the Flit! As the feud developed, Fisher-apparently by studying Li'l Abner with a magnifying glass-decided that it contained minuscule Rabelaisian detail calculated to undermine the morals of American youth. He caused certain frames of Abner to be enlarged and reprinted, and, after ringing suspicious portions in red, sent them to publishers, urging them to drop Capp's strip...
Apart from the changed format and the tampered ending, the movie suffers a letdown in British Actress Gertrude Lawrence's performance. She does a competent job, marred by some confusion of accents, and her versatility enables her to flit coquettishly through a soft-focus flashback recounting the fancied conquests of her youth. Yet she never gives the role the emotional tug or the full measure of addled humor that it had in the hands of the stage's late great Laurette Taylor...
Greeks wanted "Van Flit," as they call him, to remember their gratitude. During the days before his departure, gifts poured into his Grande Bretagne hotel room: rugs, trays, photographs, and a precious pair of cuff links (a gift from Queen Frederika). His harassed wife Helen sighed, "They spoil him so he is going to be impossible to live with." Van Fleet said he was proud to be leaving behind a tautly trained Greek army, "today the finest in this part of the world...
...walking hazardous. But most Belgraders walked; the city's insufficient trolley cars were so packed that the press called them sardine boxes. The homeward trek at nightfall conveys a strange sense of depressed urgency. Many Belgraders do not feel safe anywhere between their homes and their work; they flit off the streets like ghosts fleeing a graveyard at dawn. Here & there, watching the crowds from street corners or hotel lobbies, stood men either in uniform or in ankle-length black leather coats-which in the popular mind is the unofficial uniform of the dreaded security police, "Udruzenje Drzavne...