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...five children, is flawed by her refusal to give proper names to her leading characters. As in a morality play, they are labeled the man, the woman, the father. Another seeming handicap is that the man proves to be a confirmed alcoholic who re-enacts the Lost Weekend gamut from DTs to strait jackets to the shameless cadging of money and sympathy...
...called "Boulevard" (as opposed to the official theatres on the one hand, and the avant-garde houses on the other) continued to provide the public with a steady diet of light and unpretentious works of conventional stamp, untouched by Symbolism, Decadence, or Wagnerian innovation. In such productions the gamut of quality was understandably a wide one. Many of them, perhaps most, were concocted by second- or third-rate hacks, destined to make less than a ripple on theatrical tides with endless variations on the inevitable flagrant delit, or with revues and vaudevilles based on evanescent issues of the moment...
...little better than three points above its closing the previous Friday. Then it began a nosedive that did not stop even after it broke through its previous 1962 bottom of 553.75, set during the black hours of early morning trading on May 29. All told, 410 stocks, running the gamut from glamour to blue chip, hit new 1962 lows last week. Among them were the shares of such preeminently solid companies as Shell Oil (29½), Ford (74¼), General Electric (55½), U.S. Steel (42½), General Foods (61), Du Pont (170⅝) and Dow Chemical...
...viola creates a sensation wherever I play it. People want to know how to get that tone quality. At the Spoleto Festival, they wouldn't believe it." Mrs. Hutchins' new instruments, some of which have already been played, are even more unbelievable: they run a wide gamut of tones-from an octave higher than the violin to the lowest tones of the present bass viol-and they do so with equal timbre and loudness each step of the way. Only an instrument maker with Mrs. Hutchins' combination of craftsmanship and science could have made them...
...whole gamut of situations in Finney's cinematic odyssey is trite. There is the alley beat-up, the married woman knock-up, the beerhall cut-up and three henpecked husbands. At the end our hero ambles into the smoggy milltown sunset holding hands with a nice girl. It's all warmed over, but it tastes fine. Whether fishing on the proverbial riverbank or visiting his friendly neighborhood abortionist, Finney is obviously looking for a way to understand (and like) his life...