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Explosive Calculations. Before the war it was discovered that slow-moving neutrons could split the atoms of the uranium isotope, U-235, giving a mighty gush of energy. Besides energy, their "fission" produced more flying neutrons. If enough of these in turn split uranium atoms, the reaction would maintain itself, gain momentum. It would flash through all the uranium, like the flame of a match through excelsior...
...most eccentric and notorious U.S. characters. Like many recent biogra-phies, Dan Sickles is partly straight fact, partly imaginary reconstruction of likely facts (especially in the bedroom scenes). It suffers from writing so thick with emotion that Hero Sickles often emerges from obscurity only to be buried in gush. But it leaves clear the fact that Daniel Sickles is the season's rarest historical find...
...Lush & Gush. By the time he was 35, Woollcott's lush, melodramatic writings were earning him $2,000 a month (from the New York Herald), while his passionate, often indiscriminate hero worship poured out in a gush of famed personality sketches for The New Yorker, Cottier's, the Saturday Evening Post. No superlatives were too strong for his variegated heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess...
...friends were often disgusted by Woollcott's grossness, sickened by his gush, ashamed when, for example, he hurled himself on his knees before Novelist Somerset Maugham in a crowded elevator, crying "Maitre!" But many of them loved and respected the man inside the Fabbulous Monster. They knew that Woollcott was boundlessly kind and generous without ever admitting it, that out of his swollen income he gave away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold...
...part to plausible and polished performances by Bowman and Hayworth, but mostly to British-born Producer Victor Saville's excellent direction. With a shrewd use of every sentimental prop that greasepaint and a war-torn London can provide, Saville has told his story simply, with a minimum of gush, and considerable authenticity...