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Although Bankhead appeared in a few acclaimed films, notably Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, she is now better known for her personality. Her drawled "Hello, Daaaaahling" and her never ending flow of conversation, punctuated by quick draws on a cigarette, became fixtures in the drawing rooms (and bedrooms) of many a London and New York society home. She once bragged about having had over 5,000 lovers, and she was romantically linked to many public figures in her lifetime, including Winston Churchill, Leonard Bernstein and Greta Garbo...
...epics put their audience through this needless lifeboat drill, establishing characters whose main function is to be devoured or drowned. This applies here even to Billy, a tough loner with a sweet spot. Billy could be his own Bogart festival. At first he is the grizzled boat captain in To Have and Have Not; then he's greedy Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, risking his mates' lives to make the big score; finally, he nears the daft steeliness of The Caine Mutiny's Captain Queeg. Clooney bends his genial machismo to these darker shadings...
Most Harvard students are forced to only ponder the lifeboat dilemma in Professor of Government Michael Sandel's Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice...
...more likely to make progress on nonproliferation at this stage. Both sides have declared a moratorium on nuclear testing, and they're taking steps to reassure the world that they're not about to incinerate each other. There's nothing as effective as being cut adrift in a lifeboat to get a conversation started...
...find in five-year-olds. Such an attitude made sense perhaps in an era of male suffrage and "Help Wanted: Female" classifieds. Given the disabilities attached to womanhood in 1912, it was only fair and right that a new standard of gender equality not suddenly be proclaimed just as lifeboat seats were being handed out. That deference--a somewhat more urgent variant of giving up your seat on the bus to a woman--complemented and perhaps compensated for the legal and social constraints placed on women at the time...