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Symbol of his party's present mood is penguin-shaped Katayama. "Middle of the road" were the words with which General MacArthur approved him; "Do not overdo it" is Katayama's favorite motto. He carries an umbrella, calls himself a Fabian and has as little as possible to do with Kyuichi Tokuda's Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese newsmen, eating a lunch of rice and radish from a plain aluminum lunchbox. After the day's deliberations, he drives himself home in a stubby midget...
...each case it is Rubinstein being dubbed on the sound track, playing as he thinks each would have played. His own pianistic style is clearly definable. Rubinstein is at his best in Chopin, and vice versa. Chopin's elusive poetic shadings and magical fire are easy to overdo. As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt...
Lemon juice is rich in vitamin C, and doctors have recommended it at one time or another for rheumatism, colds, constipation, reducing. But some dentists last week sounded a warning: don't overdo it. Too much lemon juice may ruin your teeth...
...than an intelligent retelling of a hoary yarn. His camera sometimes pauses, with a fresh, childlike curiosity, to examine the shape and texture of a face, a pair of square-dancing feet, a scrap of desert landscape or a sunlit dusty road. The leisurely lens-a trick Europeans frequently overdo and Hollywood seldom attempts-makes some of Ford's black-&-white sequences as richly lifelike as anything ever trapped in Technicolor...
...been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...