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Reminding Eichmann of his oft-quoted statement in 1945 that "I will gladly leap into my grave knowing that 5,000,000 enemies of the Reich had been wiped out along with me," Hausner hammered at Eichmann to get him to admit that he had considered the Jews to be the enemy, and finally Eichmann surrendered saying, "Yes, the Jews were the enemy...
...Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter) first told his sentimental fable of the Marseilles waterfront as a trio of plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become an overweight Broadway musical. Inexplicably encouraged, Director Josh Logan set about making a new screen version, having prudently purchased the assurance that Pagnol's trilogy would not be shown concurrently...
...young lady (Shirley Anne Field) whose profession requires her to leap out of cakes at stag parties without icing distracts the hero for a time. But at last the moonship is fired. The scientists wait tensely for news. After two days it comes. Rocket haters will be cheered to learn that the first thing More sees at his landing site is a Heinz baked-bean...
...until Tennessee State's girls (most notably Olympic Triple Gold Medal Winner Wilma Rudolph) finish training before he can use the track, and gets up at 6 a.m. on Sundays to work out, set two world broad-jump marks this season: indoors, with a 26 ft. 6-in. leap; outdoors, with a 27-ft. ½in. effort...
...McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy me." One always begins, in Lowry, by rejecting the self-pity and ends by respecting the suffering...