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...where the movie heroine was chained fully clothed to the tracks to be torn asunder by the Santa Fe express, Caroline is generally denuded by pursuers intent on joining her in union specific. As she herself sportingly admits at a critical moment (she is hanging almost naked from a rafter in a subzero temperature): "There is something better to do with . . . women than to kill them...
Among Democrats, Tennessee's 35-year-old Governor Frank Clement is a man to watch-and to hear. With a rafter-quaking oratorical style. Clement hopes to roll his throbbing clauses to the vice-presidency this year. A typical Clement peroration: "Once in this world, a lonely figure climbed a cross-marked hill, and went from there into an airless tomb. He was the foe of lies, dishonor, theft and treachery. He was the champion of truth, honor, faith and bravery. It is my fervent prayer that I can so live as to be worthy of His sacrifice...
...send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends brayed his motion down in a rafter-ringing voice vote, and then shouted the bill to passage...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra well deserved the long ovation they received after this concert last night. Starting off enthusiastically with Haydn's Symphony No. 88, they combined with the Glee Club and Choral Society in a vigorous playing of the Bach Magnificat, and capped the evening with a rousing, rafter-knocking performance of the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovitch. The Orchestra members proved that inspired, as they were last night, they can do a fine job with a difficult program...
...night which ends up in a fire-gutted tenement. As the camera stalks hunter & hunted about the shadowy ruins, the suspense is drawn out to a fine edge. An intelligent sound track, all ears, brings it to a razor sharpness. When Bobby is finally cornered on a giant rafter, overhanging the gaping cellar, the rotted wood starts giving way. What follows is a breathless, well-executed collaboration between lens and microphone...