Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Razor's Edge (20th Century-Fox) dawdles away several million dollars trying to make a great philosopher out of W. Somerset Maugham and a great actress out of Gene Tierney. Result of all the costly, unsuccessful straining is an earnest, overlong, impressively glossy, frequently dull movie. Novelist Maugham remains an accomplished old storyteller who is not at his best as a camp-meeting evangelist. Miss Tierney is still a toothily pretty young woman who displays fancy clothes with far greater assurance than she displays simple emotions...
...pilgrimage to deepest India, where he picks up an interesting yoga trick that will cure headaches. Against an improbable Himalayan backdrop, he also receives from a holy man a number of fine platitudes, including the one that gives the story its title ("The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path of Salvation is hard...
...Barzilauskus, and opened one eye. Waving at him gaily, Vag slammed the window shut, cutting off the stream of cold morning air, raising a minute cloud of coal dust, and waking the other figure in the process. The Vagabond bounded into the bathroom, applied shaving cream, and, with worn razor blade, briskly began to scrape at his face. "Five hours to game time, and plenty to do," he mused...
...lighted bars, cocktail lounges, and saloons that provide the last refreshment to Boston wayfarers on the long, cold trip over the river to the Arlington wilderness. "And not only frappes," the aproned entrepreneur continued, vigorously chewing the remnants of a nondescript cheroot, "but boneless turkey, Saturday Reviews of Literature, razor blades shoe polish, and back editions of the Wake--all at the right price...
...noticed that the boys from the Necco factory annex down the river have used up the ten minutes allowed for liberal arts courses by taking time to squawk about the name of a bridge. It is not enough that they have the Tek Tooth Brush and the Gillette Tech Razor (and who can deny the utility of these gifts of science). Now they want a bridge...