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...cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
...rhythmic patter of a burro's feet, mariachis (street singers), gathered around café tables, tell the story...
...Prince & Sailor Jim panicked Manhattan's Palace (at $1,000 a week) with patter like this...
...spirit was high at the start, as wit Victor Borge dashed in from shows at the Copley and Statler to regale the Freshmen with some of his stock Danish patter and piano playing. Much amused by flying programs, flashing cameras, and beer-serving waiters, Borge supplied the only hush of the opening act when he performed novelty arrangements of the Blue Danube and Polonaise...
...They may fool everybody by seeing that this movie is a preposterously shallow mishandling of some perfectly real problems. It is also a characteristic Hollywood job of turning worthwhile material into trash and presenting it so stylishly that at times it looks good. The dialogue, an affected, pseudo-sophisticated patter, is spoken with such expert variety of inflection that it sounds real, and even intelligent...