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Some even more improbable things happen-among them Roger Moore, who as Henry II invariably wears the expression of a peevish raisin. For a time, the spectator is able to identify himself with the plight of Henry, who is said to be in mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that...
...three wanted Communists chatted with old friends, munched sweet buns and raisin bread, and two hours later, coolly submitted to arrest. Their case will test the legality of the Occupation's control ordinance, which many legal experts assert was nullified when Japan regained her independence...
...Chart" ticking off everyone from "Top Dogs" to "Hoi Polloi," lists their "visible appurtenances" of power, from "shoeshine service" to "plant stands." Sample: "Luncheon Menu for Top Dogs: Cream cheese on whole wheat, buttermilk and indigestion tablets. Menu for Hoi Polloi: Clam chowder, frankfurter and beans, rolls and butter, raisin pie a la mode, two cups of coffee." Pacific Gas & Electric Co., like many others, sensibly gives a man what he needs to operate, whether it is one phone or three. Other companies do better by an executive who is out where the public sees him. In many banks, which...
...good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in," says Hemingway. "That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better." He opens two bottles of beer and continues: "I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks...
...monotony. In the old days it was always chicken. At one time, he recalled wistfully, it was cold roast beef-until the price of beef went too high. Today it's ham-cold or hot, baked or boiled-but almost always ham, "frequently with raisin sauce." (Taft, delayed by a television appearance, missed the Lions' menu: filet mignon, crabflake gumbo, asparagus tips polonaise...