Word: hissing
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...beneath the gallows humor lies a mounting sense of desperation--brilliantly conveyed by the transcribers' development of nostalgically historical motifs. Three and four times over they go back to Nixon's prosecution of Alger Hiss, and three times they go even further, to the days when "the Communist front raised a million dollars for the Scottsboro people," when "nine hundred thousand went into the pockets of the Communists...
Adams makes his fable of survival a neat enough suspense story as his little band hippety-hops across the animal playing fields of England, bedeviled by crows, dogs, cats, automobiles and all the sundry elil (enemies) known to rabbits, not excluding other rabbits. The rabbit-you-love-to-hiss is a sort of lapine Erich von Stroheim named General Woundwort who runs a fascist-state warren. When the mateless hlessil bucks lure comely does from behind Woundwort's Iron Curtain, all bunny-hell breaks loose...
...less hostile light than several years ago. And of course, the much discussed "post-Watergate morality" is conducive to a re-examination of the case, particularly since President Nixon's personal rise to power began with his success in the other great witch hunt of that time, the Hiss case. A final and very important factor is the Rosenberg's sons, who after twenty years of anonymity have decided to publicly identify themselves with their parents and are advocating the establishment of a commission to review the evidence...
Died. Richard F. Cleveland, 76, eldest son of Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a prominent Maryland attorney; in Baltimore. Cleveland, who represented Whittaker Chambers in the libel suit brought by Alger Hiss, was active in the presidential campaigns of one Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and three Republicans, Alfred Landon, Wendell Willkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...able to conjure up, or of the sort of visual invention that made the early features so memorable. Robin Hood's basic problem is that it is rather too pret ty and good natured. The animation matches the generally pasteurized quality of the film, although Sir Hiss gets about with considerable ingenuity, and Prince John's court, complete with rhinoceros guards, elephant heralds and assorted tiny animals as creatures in waiting, comports itself with suitable indignity...