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Before television, millions of Americans got their first visual news of the outside world from a seat in a movie theater. The lights went down, a stirring theme song swelled, and "News of the Day" or Pathe's crowing rooster flashed on the screen. Even the grimness of today's on-the-spot TV coverage of Viet Nam had parallels in the scene of an injured Chinese baby bawling in the ruins of the Japanese-bombed railway station in Shanghai, in films of Hitler's armies marching across Europe and scenes of the fall of Corregidor. Until...
...funny; but there are too many absurd inside bits that become outsize bites, eating away at the film's essential innocence. Michael Dunn as a dwarf actor, Michael O'Sullivan as a one-legged albino hypnotherapist, and Julie Harris as a spinster with a girl-hating rooster stagger through scenes that suffer from fallen archness; and the names of almost everyone-I. H. Chanticleer, Miss Thing, Barbara Darling, a dog named Dog-only force the farce...
...this store weren't here ten years ago," says the manager of Chicago's Stop 'n' Shop. De Falco's Bon Vivant supermarket in San Diego stocks more than 3,000 kinds of fancy foods, from kippered sturgeon and kangaroo tails to pickled rooster combs and 4-lb. tins of Caspian Sea caviar...
Morey, morey, fairy story, boola, boola, bah! Hmmph, mmph, wmmph, lymph dee doo dah. Bulldog, wooldog, fooldog, boo. Brewster rooster, roister doister, down the oyster, in the sea. You see, Pusey, we see VC, that's why we see victory...
...pond in which he had drowned its daddy. Shaken but unhurt, Breedlove riveted two stabilizing wings on Spirit's nose, and last week he was back for another try. Waving to his crew, Breedlove pushed the throttle forward, and Spirit shot off across the flats, trailing a huge rooster tail of salt spray in its wake. "At first," he said later, "there was some vibration, and the car was moving around a little bit. But before I went into the measured mile, everything smoothed out. It was beautiful...