Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot is fanciful, and half-believable, with one glaring exception; Sister Angela laments having to eat raw fish, and then gets sick eating it, but repeatedly prays before lit votary candles, somehow missing the potentiality of the flame before...
Quietly and inflexibly, Shanks laid it on the line to state officials: either taxes come down or the Pru, one of the state's biggest taxpayers, would move out. The fight that followed was so rough that more than one vice president got sick and had to retire. Finally Shanks won: New Jersey reduced the Pru's taxes. Says Shanks: "I'd hate to think what would have happened if I'd failed...
...acting, however, is superb. As Rene LaGuen, the sick, bewildered half-idiot, Marcel Mouloudji is unforgettable. With his raggedy walk and shapeless body, he looks often like a teddy bear but seems, at times, a man possessed. LeGuen's cellmates, Raymond Pelligrin as Gino and Antoine Balpetre as Dr. Dutoit, the one a young Corsican feudist and the other a resigned old man, make proud and individualistic people for whom legal 'responsibility' can only be irrelevant. It merely intensifies the private obligation to die well. As Rene's kid brother, Georges Pouliouly sometimes seems less bewildered than still...
Mike Schoettle, just recently off the New Haven sick list, will wrestle heavy-weight against A1 Culbert. Schoettle is a strong wrestler who has compiled a good record so far this season, while Culbert will be seeking his second win in five starts. However, Culbert's improvement in the past few weeks foreshadows a possible Crimson upset...
...cartoonist to develop a plot with a series of consecutive panels and a permanent cast of characters, the first to enclose all his dialogue in balloons. His Kids, christened Katzenjammer (German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star...