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...match the blast furnaces and the man-killing mines of an industrial age-"one of those guys who work hard and have lots of flesh with nothing supple about them. They never open their fists, really. They grip a cup like an animal would wrap a paw around it. They're so muscle-bound they can hardly talk. Stanley didn't give a damn how he said a thing. His purpose was to convey his idea. He had no awareness of himself at all." As he lived the part, Brando dragged his audience back by the hair...
Angered, one of the lions slammed him to the ground with a great paw. Two other lions began cuffing him while horrified spectators called for help. Hearing the screams, Margarethe Storch, an attendant, crawled into the arena banging two metal shields together...
...effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs herself. Gurgling with vodka, the fat cats of the Rostov central committee storm the local ballet school, and as they pinch and paw the trembling girls, tell them the facts of Soviet life: "The Government keeps you, pays you, looks after you without end. Now you're going to pay some of it back...
...fighting the only way he knows: throwing punches from everywhere, whacking away at Charles with jarring shots that began to find the range. They hurt no matter where they hit. In the eighth, Rocky was at his brawling best. He bulled Charles against the ropes, hooked his big left paw around the back of Charles's head to hold it in position, and whaled away with a vicious right uppercut to the Adam's apple. Charles never recovered...
Soon the whole town is talking about the "mystery girl." Crowds mob her in Macy's, TV types paw her, the soap man bills her in a big ad campaign as "the average American girl," the Air Force hails her as "The Girl We'd Most Like to Be Up in the Air With." Gladys has at last become a Somebody. But there is a moral: a Somebody is sometimes only a nobody that everybody has heard about. With this thought in her pretty head, she is patiently led away by the boy (Jack Lemmon) she has really...