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...quickly embroiled in hijacking a train, kidnaping a German NATO general, and grabbing a payroll of about ?1,000,000. Mastermind of the scheme is a bespectacled genius (Anton Rodgers) who operates a crime school fronting as a nature clinic where dotty old ladies imbibe mineral water laced with gin. Rodgers' girl friend (Charlotte Rampling) is a pert socialite making her criminal debut as the temptress assigned to dazzle a lieutenant of the armed guards, though much of her wickedness is spent in murdering the Queen's English with such nauseous effusions as "how rave-making" or "supremo...
...Knack is a perfect summertime film, a celluloid gin and tonic -- bright, sparkling, mildly intoxicating, and not-at-all a serious people's film (although it may break up the stodgy old bag downstairs...
Atlanta Waitress Lucy McDonald was in De Kalb General Hospital visiting her sister two years ago when she got the hiccups. Except for two short periods, Lucy has hiccuped ever since. She tried home remedies-2,000 of them-from drinking gin to eating peanut butter. More than 100 doctors examined her. She was drugged and she was hypnotized. The hiccups continued-sometimes at a clip of 90 a minute...
...House of Lords Gin, in a burst , gave a party. For report. Reporters would be welcome to all hold, they said...
...roaring '20s, the family comics came along. Such respectable folk as the Gumps neither played the stock market nor swilled bathtub gin; it was probably no accident that Andy Gump was chinless. Blondie began life as a sharp-tongued flapper, but she soon settled down to suburban housewifely routine and is still the most widely read strip.* Little Orphan Annie veered from the family pattern since she lacked parents. But Daddy Warbucks, a billionaire arms manufacturer, has more than made up for their absence. With his help, ageless Annie has plowed under no end of evildoers while issuing...