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...science fiction stories deliberately overturned. The lab assistant, usually a mousily intelligent character who worships the Professor from afar, is here the dumbest blonde on film and never wears a lab coat. Because she has a heart of gold and sleeps with the Doctor without making a big fuss, she gets her man. Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee is gorgeous, but a fastidious prude--until she falls madly in love with the monster. The monster, hideous and despised by human society, becomes a sex symbol. Peter Boyle, as the monster, has eyes that say everything. Madeline Kahn is so luscious...
...Christmas issue focusing on our fisticuffs over whether the Bible is human or divine, when the whole nativity scene shows so eloquently that God has become fully human-diapers, crib and all. The manger story means that the divine speaks only through the human. So what is all the fuss about...
Giscard's purpose was to emphasize that such sessions should be so common and accepted in the European family that no one should make a fuss. "When the civil servants meet, they never take any decisions," said one of his aides. "When the foreign ministers meet, they take a few. We must get together the men who really control power in their countries, the heads of government, if we are to take the difficult decisions that face us." Assessing the conference, Italian Premier Aldo Moro said that "the Europe convened here in Paris is a Europe whose mechanisms...
...finally thawed it out for dinner, but his wife refused to cook it, fearing that it had gone bad. So he threw it into the river. "I thought it would be a laugh if some fisherman found it washed up somewhere, but I never expected all this fuss," says Yallop. "I know it is the same fish because it weighs about the same, and it was bruised in exactly the same place." At week's end Thames Water Authority officials were still staunchly insisting that the salmon was an authentic denizen of the Thames...
...Bleak House, which so sharply used law courts as a metaphor for 19th century England. But Snow is closer to Trollope (whose biography he is now writing) than to Dickens. For he is finally interested in showing how the system works, rather than in asking why or making a fuss about it. His wariness makes for low-level emotions. What Critic V.S. Pritchett said of Trollope could be said of Snow: "Reading him is like walking down endless corridors of carpet...