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...idea: to recreate events of the past as though they are news stories of the present. Unfortunately, the show flunked its first two assignments: the 1937 destruction of the airship Hindenburg, and the 1882 killing of Jesse James. You Are There's chief trouble is a tendency to meander instead of march to its dramatic climax. Also, its characters are too wordily aware of their place in history. The sponsor (on alternate weeks): America's Electric Light & Power Companies...
Twentieth Century Fox's newest technicolor extravaganza, Bloodhounds of Broadway, should rate as one of the worst musicals of the year. The standard of acting is so poor that any Oscars for the film must go to two sleepy-eyed bloodhounds who meander their way through the very routine Damon Runyon plot--which has such a strong resemblance to the stage show Guys and Dolls that legal action has been started. For the movie's sake it's too bad that the alleged plagiarism wasn't more obvious...
...bulldog jaws. But his step was still springy, and under his beetling brows his eyes could still smolder and twinkle with their old fire. During the last years of his eclipse, old friends and enemies alike had noticed in Churchill's speech a tendency to slur and meander, but in the heat of this latest campaign, with victory once more within his grasp, the old leader gave no sign of such deterioration...
...created by Novelist Anthony Trollope for his own convenience and taken over by Novelist Thirkell. There is little further resemblance between them. Where Trollope was gruff, Thirkell is pert; where he peered keen-sightedly, she drops a whimsical, astigmatic glance. Trollope loved a knotty plot, but Thirkell prefers to meander undramatically through Barsetshire, finding husbands for her heroines and painting the local watercolors. When in doubt as to what to say next, she just says: "The months moved on in their usual...
Land titles often indicated how many trees were on the property Contemporary descriptions in journals and prints gave even more information. Maps of the present sewer system revealed old brooks that used to meander through Harvard Square and are now enclosed by conduits...