Word: noggin
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There is, of course, much more crammed inside that Mount Rushmore noggin. Sevareid was among the most articulate, most literate and most judicious of television sages. In a farewell address last week, he summed up some of the lessons he has learned in a half-century as a journalist. Prominent among them: "To retain the courage of one's doubts, as well as one's convictions, in this world of dangerously passionate certainties...
...Phillis, two 25-ft.-high statues in colonial dress mounted at press-box level. When a Philly hits a home run, Phil strokes an animated ball, which strikes an animated Liberty Bell, which lights up along the crack, and the ball then ricochets and conks Phillis on the noggin. Phillis responds by shooting off a cannon while a large colonial flag unfurls from the press box and a fountain of "dancing waters" spouts in centerfield...
...m.p.h., the skaters shoved, tripped and slugged one another with abandon. The Braves' Ronnie Robinson, Sugar Ray's son and the villain on the current tour, repeatedly locked his arm around an opponent's head and then flipped seat-first onto the track, apparently crunching the noggin under his bottom. He also excelled at kicking rivals in the mouth with his skates and beating them over the head with his helmet...
...costume she wears as ringmistress and owner of an English circus, in which a killer at large perpetrates a parlay of improbable murders. One high-wire artist is garroted by his wire, another is skewered on a bed of bayonets, the manager gets a tent spike neatly through the noggin, and a Lady-Who-Gets-Sawed-in-Half gets sawed in half. In between, the usual circus acts-elephants, horses, dogs, wild animals, aerialists-plus repeated shots of the audience giggling and gasping, pad out the film to the conventional 90 minutes...
...there's one hitch. The doubling of Bottom and Oberon is quite possible--except for one critical scene well along in the play (IV, i), where Bottom, with his noggin transformed into an ass' head, and Oberon must both appear and speak on stage. We are told that Anthony of Padua, Philip Neri and other saints of eld were capable of bilocation. Are they now to be joined by Saint Cyril? The suspense is hardly bearable; and the answer turns out to be: yes, apparently. Bottom appears; yes, it's Ritchard's voice all right. Titaniz puts him to sleep...