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...Sabre in Korea, Kindelberger does not underestimate the mechanical ability of the Russians. Says he: "Our conception of the Russian is crazy. We've thought of him as a peasant with a cow, and his wife out pulling a plow-stopping only now and then to scratch. But Russia is building up and improving her industries all the time...
...records, was bitten by a snake. Though often shot at, Fawcett was never hit by the 6-ft. poisoned arrows of the forest people; and once, when he and his mule fell off a log bridge into a rushing stream, he escaped, almost miraculously, without a scratch...
...into a philosophical autobiographer. What keeps Dom Casmurro from being a routine triangle drama is the wit and wisdom with which Author Machado embroiders his plot. As in Epitaph of a Small Winner, he breaks into his story with joshing asides to the reader, e.g., "Perhaps I'll scratch this out when it goes to press," "Shake your head, reader. Make all the gestures of incredulity there are." His piece of advice hardest to follow: "Throw away this book...
...other old painting. This painting has been ruined by a bunch of morons." The professor's problem: not only to remove the ages of dirt and mold, but also the layers of clumsy retouching brushed on by past restorers. "It's extremely simple," he says. "You just scratch until you reach the real Leonardo." Then, smiling behind his spectacles, he adds: "The only difficulty lies in knowing exactly when to stop...
...plot makes little difference to any Chevalier fan. In caricaturing a spring chicken still trying to scratch in mid-autumn he rises above farce to approach great comedy. His lessons to Jacques in picking up beautiful women are as delightful as they are instructive. And one of the funniest scenes shows Jacques stumbling through an imitation of the master's technique with Madeleine as the target...