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...master cross-examiner, Foreman made hash of the state's witnesses-a clutch of convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked...
...closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner is actually a gentle, restless wanderer, then through his eyes that the acquiescent hash slinger is a woman made beautiful by extraordinary warmth and spontaneity...
...General Education Committee on some points. Finally, it will do no good to rush into this program immediately. If it must be worked out in a very few months, by a new Gen Ed Committee, the chances are that it will turn out to be an administrative hash. Not enough time will be offered to Faculty members to create new courses, and not enough to the committee to prune less-worthy courses from the upper-level offerings. Its installation should be postponed for a year...
...fact that he brought off the first movement so well made his hash of the second movement sound particularly bad. His tempo was excruciatingly deliberate, but I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately he sped up, slowed down, and sped up again; if the orchestra had followed his tempi exactly, the effect would have been even worse. The timpani solo, which a timpanist friend assures me couldn't have been too loud, was-and the movement as a whole was a gigantic bore...
...would take charity to say that there this book balances though it would be say that Miss Bernays display flashes of and originality in . But if the hash she bad as the hash she ten, it might well for divorce...