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...documentaries are verging, in fact, toward formula. If they are to realize their fine potentialities-or even stay as good as they started, they need new ideas and new problems. Self-repetition is not immediately fatal; but it brings death to the door, and leaves the door on the latch...
...Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will keep him teaching his tricks at Portillo...
...stories that make Suetonius look like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard up for a story, always knew where to get it: go out and latch a siphon on to Hopper...
...Americans discovered Newfoundland, found its rivers teeming with trout and salmon, its interior full of moose, caribou and partridge. They found "the latch is off the door" truly expressive of the hospitable islanders...
Nephew Sebastian, meanwhile, was tossing miserably on his bed one night when the latch clicked and he was enveloped in an aroma of "spring freshness and musky animality." It was Mrs. Thwale. " 'Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love,'" she quoted later, huskily. Then she married Paul De Vries, the breakfast-food heir...