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...songs, (Keel and chorus), and snow capped mountains, Fernando Lamas slinks in from the swamp and proceeds to capture the affections of naive Rose Marie. This is singularly ungratifying because besides being a poacher and corrupter of the wilderness, he is two-timing a cute little Indian bump and grind dancer named Jane Grey. It might be said with some justification here that Lamas, "who loves zee woods, and cannot stond zee ceeties and zee thought of zee zame ever'day", does not quite come across as a lover of the aesthetic. Even when he answers Ann Blyth's plaintive...
...Toryism accepted the social services as giving individuals fuller expression, and even claimed credit for helping create them. But Rab also transformed the terms in which the Tories saw them selves. Instead of capitalists itching to grind the faces of the poor, he saw them as exponents of freedom resisting an autocratic state. He wanted, said Butler, "a creative society, not a series of state almshouses...
Chunky Konno (5 ft. 6 in., 147 Ibs.) started it off by winning his specialty, the 1,500-meter grind, and swam the distance in 18:14.4 to break his own N.C.A.A. mark by 1.1seconds. In the second event, the 50-yd. freestyle, Cleveland touched out the opposition in 0:22.3, just two-tenths of a second off the record; in the third event, Oyakawa won the 200-yd. backstroke. With that kind of 1-2-3 start, Ohio State's Hawaiian hands kept right on going. Konno won the 440-yd., setting another record, placed second...
...traditional way is to take $5,000,000, reconstruct downtown Bagdad in the outskirts of Las Vegas, hire three leading historians to supply the facts and six writers to grind them to a proper pulp, buy at least four big names for the marquee, get rolling with a colossal publicity campaign, and then hope that people will rush to see the picture before their friends tell them...
...Hollywood, the Breen Office suggested that Producer Leonard Goldstein remove from his new film. Princess of the Nile, certain scenes in which Cinemactress Debra Paget performs bumps and grinds while dancing. Protested Goldstein: "The Egyptians didn't call those movements bumps and grinds. We are now arguing with the Breen Office as to what is a bump and what is a grind...