Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting, the real heroine is Enid Marcy as the woman from Dedham. Had she only repeated her lines, she would be a characterization rather than a character. Instead, she restrains the humor of her position and substitutes a touch of pathos. This fact alone changes her from a shallow critic of homespun virtue to a character equal in strength to her companion...
Leakey's body was found in a dense thicket some five miles from the lonely farm on which his wife was strangled to death by Mau Mau six weeks ago. Leakey had been tortured, buried alive and left in a shallow grave to become the prey of hyenas and wild dogs. Oddly enough, his murder was regarded in Kenya as further evidence of the Mau Mau's declining fortunes. The captured Kikuyu witchwoman who led police to Leakey's grave admitted that he had been made a human sacrifice in the hopes that his death would bring...
...audience for the courtroom scene to follow. It also leads one to expect that the hero will be saved by some new and ingenious clue, and the drama will be resolved in terms of the circumstances and not the people involved. Indeed, the leading characters are never more than shallow caricatures made ludicrous by the very violence of their emotions. Consequently, when Miss Christie reversed her play entirely in the final act, changing it from a mystery to grand tragedy based on the misevaluation of human beings, Witness for the Prosecution collapses merely for the sake of a surprise ending...
...statement was a fantastic amount of painstaking work. The Comet G-ALYY (Yoke Yoke), that went into the sea near Naples on April 8, left no remains that could be analyzed, but when Comet G-ALYP (Yoke Peter) crashed on Jan. 10 off Elba, its fragments fell into fairly shallow water. Armed with underwater television cameras and special "grab" equipment, a flotilla of British naval salvage vessels and Italian trawlers scoured the bottom, about 500 ft. deep, and fished up the twisted fragments. In all, they got 70% of the structure and 80% of the power plant...
...some areas, so much shot has been fired at elusive ducks that birds have actually died of lead poisoning without even being hit (diving for food in shallow water, ducks sometimes swallow astonishing quantities of soft-lead pellets...