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...word, English, Major Geoffrey Vicars, skirmishes baggy-trousered local rebels, goes panther shooting, or was it cheetahs, with the treacherous Surat Khan, and loses the love of Olivia DeHaviland, whose lower lip quivers almost continuously in the role of some English general's tender-sweet daughter. The charge, rung in as a sort of last resort in the last ten minutes of the film, climaxes an hour and a half of historical rance, during which the heroine says, "Perry (Geoff's younger brother), I've tried so hard not to; oh, but I do love you." The various generals, officers...
Eccentric Human Nature. He was the son of a stuffy, snobbish Royal Academician named William Collins, whose only aim in life was to climb to the top of the ladder, kicking off old friends at every rung. Wilkie rebelled violently against his father's way of life-particularly because the elder Collins always deemed his social climbing to be a form of Christian uplift. Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts. He was shortsighted and short of stature...
...report the political campaign by talking to the voters." For his pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather with scholarly insight, he predicted both the Eisenhower victory ("possibly by a landslide") in 1952 and the Democratic recapture of Congress...
...where cheerful, cherubic, chain-smoking Don Cesare Polidori tends his flock in a section known for toughness even in tough Trastevere. Hard by the famous Thieves' Market is a district whose bitter poverty made it a hiving hotspot for trouble-brewing Communists, Don Cesare's bells had rung through every feast in the 14 years of his ministry. More important, perhaps, they rang when there was no feasting, for Don Cesare, troubled by the fact that more than half of his 15,000 parishioners voted Communist, conceived the idea of ringing the bells to break up party meetings...
...Song has contaminated it with what can only be called some pretty lousy English. So delicate and tasteful a play as this should not contain such lines as "I feel like I could fly" or--as Teresa exclaims when she looks to see if it is Antonio who has rung the bell...