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Playwright Krasna's pennyworth of wit and plot is about as much help to the proceedings as a sliver of ice to a long summer drink. And Kind Sir seems hardly more wicked than it is witty. Moreover, the production-instead of obeying the rule for froth, and moving as fast and lightly as possible-is all in regal slow-motion, like a Coronation rehearsal. Actress Martin cannot fail to be personally engaging, but her portentous pauses and rather statuesque poses are a mistake. Boyer's role allows an excellent actor no chance...
...windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds his way to a corner cantina. "Do we make a deal?" he asks the barkeeper. "Why not?" says the barkeep, and pours out a liter of pulque. Wiping the milky froth from his lips, the organ grinder then reels off three numbers that have the hod carriers at the bar singing at the tops of their voices...
...working themselves into a new competitive lather. Their latest product: all-detergent soap bars. Procter & Gamble's "Zest" is already being test-marketed, as is Colgate's "Charmis"; Lever Bros, is reported to be rushing a detergent bar of its own into production. The big ad froth will come next year...
Nineteenth century British liberals agreed more often than not with free-thinking John Thelwall, who blew the froth off his beer and said: "So would I treat all kings." The majority of 20th century Socialists are more apt to raise their pints in ancient and loyal homage. The change has come about because British monarchs, since Victoria, have learned to express and affect what modern men call "the aspirations of the collective subconscious." Historian Walter Bagehot thought a better name was "magic," and held that too much light should not be let in on it. For the heart...
...level at which the air has so little pressure that human blood (temperature 98.6° F.) begins to boil. If something had gone wrong and Wing Commander Gibb had been exposed to the pressure outside his cockpit,' his veins and tissues would have puffed up with a froth of water vapor, his spinal fluid would have begun to beil, and he would have died in a few seconds...