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...William Graham makes a dignified and interesting figure out of Gogol's pompous cold. Karen Christiani as the object of his apprehensions is rather more wooden than the role requires, but ingenuous and pretty. Many of Alison Keith's lines ring hollow, but her matchmaker is a lively old rip, and she's funny, so what the hell. John Wolfson is occasionally funny as the friend who actually makes the match, but familiarity lessens the effect of many of his mannerisms...
...Chrysler's strategy "to combat sales slump" is splashier trim and more chrome. How unrealistic can they get? What they ought to do is rip the nasty stuff off their monsters and cut prices...
...High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director José Ferrer (TIME, March...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...
...denied nothing, and arrogantly announced that if Germany did not want him, a teaching job awaited him in Egypt. After three days of testimony and six hours of deliberation, the three judges and two lay jurors brought in their verdict: guilty; one year in jail. "Zind's words rip open the old, barely healed wounds of the German people," declared Presiding Judge Johannes Eckert. "What thousands have tried to repair, one man with such words can destroy." But as Ludwig Zind walked out of the courtroom, where the audience had been plainly on his side, women wept...