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Another criticism of the production concerns the translation, which is much worse than the published version. Phrases have become weaker and less significant: "All trees have rotten branches" loses its universality as "there's a black sheep in every family," for example...
...activity seems to be the wharf, naturally enough in a fishing town. It's calmer here, on the inside of the tip, and the tide is low, very low. A dinghy stands adrift on the black silt, waiting for the cold waters to come back; the rickety, nearly rotten legs of the wharf opposite are exposed in their spindly starkness to sea gulls, boats, and fishing nets...
Public hearings will be held, probably in May, to evaluate some of the river's troubles and to ponder some possible solutions. But Roger C. Albitson, project engineer, noted yesterday that some of the river's problems are pretty obvious. The river's "rotten egg" smell, he said, is the result of brackishness and pollution...
...past weeks a nation of rotten drivers was informed that it was politically and medically ignorant as well. Given a Citizenship Test highlighted with courtroom dramas and political-convention footage, 41% of CBS's sample could not identify either of their U.S. Senators. The National Health Test concluded with the news that 75% of Americans cannot name even three of cancer's seven danger signals,* and that two-fifths cling to the schoolboy belief that they can get venereal disease from toilet seats...
...good ole Wild Bill, is queer. This skeleton rattling brought to mind the recent screen satire, Cat Ballou, but Mr. Oppenheimer's heroes are far more perverted, far too bitter. He doesn't laugh at the foibles of the Old West, he indicates that they were part of the rotten-to-the-core morality that has existed and does exist in America...