Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British government does not give up producing bombs (he gives a seven-day ultimatum which is to expire at noon--hence the title). The issue at hand, therefore, is: will he be found and stopped before he explodes his bomb? The answer is too obvious. No one can fool himself into accepting the likelihood of something so well-established as London being blotted out, and besides, everyone who sees the movie knows that London was still standing when he went into the theatre. In the average thriller, or even in the foregone-conclusion romance, the audience can always believe...
...easily explained how & why he had produced the drawings. "As a youth, taking Leonardo for my model," he began, "I went dutifully to the anatomy theater in Moscow. Later I was found in a dead faint on the pavement outside . . . But Mrs. Nature you can't fool with her. She's a tenacious woman . . . Twenty years later I discovered what a marvelous transparent vessel the human being is-like a crystal jungle. From that time on, I was trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then I came to what I'm doing...
...cottage on the school grounds with his granddaughter Liz, a cat named Alice, a goose named Ted and a pig named Daisy. The Misses Edge and Baker want Rock off the place so they can have his cottage. A third vexation: Sebastian, one of the instructors, is making a fool of himself with the old scientist's somewhat addle-brained granddaughter...
...morally? There are sacred secrets belonging to the sick which 18 could not and ought not to be able to understand-and there are secrets, the very reverse of sacred, the secrets of vice, about Patients which their Nurse must know if she is not to be made a fool of; and which one shrinks from any young woman, gentle or simple, knowing. (Alas! the 'simple' know them far too soon...
...person has to be unnormal to get into this kind of business," concluded Cinemactress Lauren ("The Look") Bacall. "In the first place, you have to be slightly demented to make a fool of yourself in front of ... a whole crew of people who don't care a bit about what you are doing . . . Also you have to be a little nuts to get up at 6 o'clock every morning to go to work...