Word: reborning
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...screwball comedy stubbornly refuses to be reborn. It flourished in the '30s and into the '40s, urged on by the talents of such as Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday) and Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve) and considerably abetted by the general delirium of the times. The format flourished under Sturges all during World War II but died out soon after the war ended...
...tried to embrace his client; the undemonstrative Mitchell shook him off. "You've got the jury system and it always works," he said calmly afterwards. Stans was less restrained. Eyes moist, he hugged one of his attorneys and later said: "I feel like I've been reborn...
With its lavish use of pictures and its breezy tone about personalities, PEOPLE is bound to remind some readers of other Time Inc. publications. Stolley, 45, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE, cautions against instant analogies: "PEOPLE is not a reborn LIFE in reduced size, and it is not the People section of TIME stretched to 50 editorial pages." What PEOPLE actually is should become clearer with each new issue, but Stolley foresees no problem in establishing the magazine's identity: "There is nothing abstract about our name. People are what we are all about...
...little son. She disposes of the body by cooking it in a stew that the father then eats. Little sister, who knows what is up, sadly buries the bones under the juniper. Magically, the boy is transformed into a gaudy bird who eventually kills the stepmother and then is reborn again...
...never land. There, it-or he-is instructed in higher wisdom by a bird called Chiang, whose lessons in life and philosophy and heightened consciousness take a hint from Dale Carnegie, a leaf from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a volume from Kahlil Gibran. Thus enlightened, Jonathan is apparently reborn. He returns to his flock and spreads the good word in a sort of Sermon on the Garbage Mount: "Listen, everybody! There's no limit to how high we can fly! We can dive for fish and never have to live on garbage again...