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...resulted seemed like a deadly form of shadow boxing." Marshall gives a harrowing example: eight 7th Division newcomers went out on patrol one warm night, expecting "no sweat"; all eight were later found dead in a circle, shot in ambush by a foe so close that some victims bore powder burns. Says Marshall: "You can't beat Davy Crockett with a Boy Scout." But many of the "Boy Scouts" fought the foe to a draw...
...dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never appeared; it was as if the world were one vast, closed powder room. And though the scriptwriters have kept the play's plain plot (gossip wrecks marriage, husband marries golddigger, wife gets him back), they have jazzed it up with plenty of new wisecracks-some of them acute, others merely cute...
...chemicals, there were more drops than rises. American Cyanamid's thirdquarter earnings rose 24% over last year's to $10,751,819, and Atlas Powder went from $928,010 in '55 to $1,059,291 in J56's third quarter. But Union Carbide & Carbon fell to $32,148,446 (from $37,821,-591 last year); Du Pont dropped to $1.99 a share from $2.26 in last year's third quarter; Allied Chemical & Dye declined...
...that moment, with the curtain down, an extraordinary thing happened. The audiences, which had sat through the performances in what appeared to be a shocked silence, sat on in silence, without applauding. The elegant Düsseldorf audience filed out quietly, many moist-eyed and with smeared face powder and rouge. U.S. Actors' Coach Paula Strasberg, mother of Susan Strasberg. who created the Anne Frank role on Broadway, described what happened in Berlin: "After the curtain fell there was a deep, dark silence. Not a sound. It seemed to me the people weren't even breathing. It lasted...
...coherent novel, selecting being the tricky business that it is, there are other defects for which no such excuse can be offered. The language is seldom precise and sometimes implausible. Chace writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated...