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...ground for invading foreign armies. Yet, from its 326 miles of Baltic coastline, Poland is now mounting a seaborne invasion of its own into foreign markets. Ships built in ports bearing such tongue-twisting names as Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin are turning up with increasing frequency in fishing and merchant fleets round the world...
...TOOTH MERCHANT...
...Tooth Merchant, Sulzberger's knowledge is very much in evidence, but so is a distinct sense of humor. He presents a slippery, multilingual Armenian named Kevork Sasounian, who discovers the original dragon's teeth (sacksful of them), which have been lying in a cave in Asia Minor since Cadmus' and Jason's time. What to do? Why, sell them as potential shock troops to the highest bidder in the cold war world of the 1950s...
...smuggle his mistress from Istanbul to Paris), and sowing the story with enough hard words to keep most readers within busy reach of a good dictionary. (Samples: congener, metopic, eristic, flocculent, saporous.) Sulzberger's congeners will be pleased to find that The Tooth Merchant, though occasionally eristic, never stoops to flocculence...
...Taylor, playing Polly Garter as she might have looked if she worked Miami Beach at $100 a trick; Peter O'Toole, who appears to have dashed right over from the set of Man of La Mancha, still wearing his same makeup; and various excellent character actors like Vivien Merchant, Glynis Johns and Victor Spinetti. The film is actually brief, but it seems ruthlessly long, like being trapped in an endless high school assembly...