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...villainess, she is just getting started. Revealing her mission to Ronald, she tells him she plans to kill Joan - "Because you must have a thousand bitter tastes of death before you die." (The ripe dialogue is by Hollywood neophyte Sidney Buchman, whose distinguished list of credits would include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Here Comes Mr Jordan and The Talk of the Town.) She soon ascends on a geyser of madness as she decides on a new torture: "My vengeance is inspired tonight. You will first have the torture of seeing her beauty eaten slowly away by this hungry acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Anna May Win | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

...into the country; when the Feds close in on them, they jettison their human payload. (An identical scene appears two years later in Secret Service of the Air, the first in Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft series.) Wong turns globe-trotting sleuth to learn the identity of the smugglers' Mr. Big (who turns out to be a Mrs.) and is nearly gang-raped on slave ship of illegal immigrants. When four guys fight in a dispute over her honor, she stands by, paralyzed. Scriptwriters, who didn't have trouble dreaming up cool things for her to do when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Anna May Win | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

Sorry to disappoint, Mr. O’Reilly...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: If Only They Knew | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

...hope that I have satisfactorily answered Mr. Bleecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 19, 1927 | 2/1/2005 | See Source »

...More space might be saved by using the figure 1 for "one," Sen. for Senator, Pres. for President. A good example: "Pres. & Mrs. Coolidge & Sen. Norbeck & wife were entertained by 1 Mr. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 19, 1927 | 2/1/2005 | See Source »

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