Word: labyrinthitis
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...like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.* A bullheaded character of mythology, to whom many innocents were sacrificed. It took a hero, Theseus, to find the way out of his labyrinth...
...Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester, who is in reality a secret agent. Dressed up in Giacomo the Jester's outfit, Danny Kaye goes to the castle to get the key to the secret passageway "for the cause." Here the plot wanders into a labyrinth of evil subjects...
...labyrinth, memory was a better guide than hope. Koestler proved faithful to the links of a Jewish family-to those who loved him without Freudian gimmicks-his father, a lovable crank who went broke backing quack inventions; his mother, so invincibly bourgeois that she knew her son could never have been a jailbird...
...outfight Communist parties threatening France and Italy, there suddenly seems to be injected a moment of farce, of hysteria edging on madness, when the news tickers of the world click out the report that Senator McCarthy is hot on the trail of a suspect typist trapped in the Pentagon labyrinth...
...Pickwick Papers (Renown; Mayer-Kingsley). The movies have already made 26 films based on Charles Dickens' works. This 27th, the first full-length picture made from The Pickwick Papers, is a nimble scamper through that intricate and delightfully interminable literary labyrinth...