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...whole movie, in fact, is a winning battle against cliches and stock characterizations. For every consequential character is either very good or thoroughly evil. Tom Brown does one outstanding feat of heroism and pluck after another. Dr. Arnold exhibits wisdom, patience, and understanding in an endless succession of situations. And Flashman, the bully, spends hardly a moment without doing something nasty, sadistic, and depraved. Yet the film moves along quickly, with humor and charm...
...Frenchmen who live in Tunisia and pluck its fruits have no desire whatever to cast off the protection of their home government. Their interests will forever clash with those of the 3,230,000 Tunisians among whom they live...
Last week Waldman and seven other "steel brokers" told a Senate subcommittee, headed by Michigan Senator Blair Moody, how they managed to pluck so many blossoms from the "daisy chain" between steel mill and steel user...
...questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
...Military service is potentially one part of every young man's life today ... In case anyone is interested, I'm a nondisabled combat veteran of World War II, resisting the temptation to pluck giveaway benefits from the VA cornucopia...