Word: lingerer
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...leaden for fantasy, the movie is mulishly slow, and so prone to linger on the obvious that for a while it barely makes the grade as comedy. Not content to have Francis show up his military superiors, Author-Scripter Stern lets the mule go on haranguing them as well. But in its best scenes, the picture kicks up enough fun to numb a tolerant moviegoer to its shortcomings. Actor O'Connor makes an amiable nitwit, and Francis (voice by horse opera's Chill Wills) is a tribute to the patience and technical skill of moviemaking...
...tail section fluttered down, turning over & over, scattering debris and bodies, and smashed to rest, belly-up, on the riverbank. The forward half of the plane seemed to linger in the air. Then it too plunged down, hit the river in a burst of spray, and was gone...
After the conviction of the 11 Communist leaders last week, two problems linger on to bother those who wish to maintain justice while preventing subversion. One is a legislative problem, the other a question of specific procedures used by courts and loyalty boards...
...Paris, Mary Garden, 72, said that she would make a lecture tour in the U.S. this fall, her first trip back in 18 years. Her subjects: music, the opera, and singers. Said the onetime prima donna, whose hip-swinging versions of Thais and Salome still linger in the memories of old-time operagoers: "I will speak as I feel...
...were streaming into the rickety, broken-down hut which Nagumo used as his headquarters, to be comforted by Nagumo's deity, "The August Inside of Heaven Owner God." To demonstrate their true faith, the converts always laughed when they prayed. "The spirit of the smile," glowed Nagumo, "must linger in everything...