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...seethed to express myself," he said, and decided that newspaper work offered the expression he craved-and the chance to rub shoulders with "bankers, millionaires, artists, executives, leaders, the real rulers of the world." Hot on the trail of success, he crashed New York at 23, leaped into a job at the World, quickly leaped out again, a back-country boy flummoxed by big-city journalism. Pressed by a friend, he decided to try a novel. He jotted down a title at random-Sister Carrie. Then he started writing, without a plot, without a character in mind...
English Only. Under the British North America Act of 1867, French Canada, meaning the huge eastern province of Quebec, retained its own language, Catholic religion and cultural identity on an equal basis with the English. Quebec is still overwhelmingly French. The rub is over the word equal...
...comedy is a rubber-limbed contortionist, and sometimes stretch the fun to the breaking point. Luckily, the supporting cast shows such spirit that Lemmon has to work hard for his share of the laughs. As the gentlemen's gentleman who would not hesitate one moment to help rub out a superfluous lady, Terry-Thomas hyphenates the movie with tomfoolery, holding whole scenes together by letting his face fall apart like a piece of shattered Limoges...
...Cain used in killing Abel, the Fry Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel's upper cranium the first time he used it, and the scene had to be interrupted for nearly a week until the black and blue patch subsided...
Toilet-paper streamers festooned the trees. Strings of firecrackers chattered like machine guns. Signs were everywhere. SONS OF ERIN, UNITE! they said. RUB THEIR NOSES IN THE IRISH SOD! Sturdy young men stopped strangers, flashed their "Hate State!" buttons and inquired politely: "You wouldn't be a State man, now, would you?" South Bend, Ind., was no place for the faint of heart last week. Notre Dame, the No. 1 college football team in the nation, was taking on Archrival Michigan State?and the Fighting Irish were in a fighting mood...