Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This chronicle is often retrieved from corniness by touching moments and memories that allow young Lahr to mold humanity around the trite-tragic skeleton that his father's life seems to have been. For instance, there is Lahr as a budding vaudevillian putting makeup on his collar even when unemployed so everyone will know he is in show biz. One is touched by the physical fact that his left wrist was permanently larger than the right from breaking repeated pratfalls. And a fine moment comes when a wino outside the theater holds out a dollar saying "Here, Bert...
...canal are 15 vessels, which have been trapped in the Suez ever since the fighting broke out 30 months ago. One, the American freighter Observer, sits alone in Lake Timsah, 49 miles south of Port Said. The 14 others are bunched together in the Great Bitter Lake. Skeleton crews, who are rotated every three months, maintain the vessels...
...such an intimate story, all other characters are subordinate. But one actress has taken a minor part and nearly made off with the show. As Mrs. Chips' bony crony, Sian Phillips (Mrs. O'Toole offscreen) moves like Garbo, hoots like Tallulah, and seems quite the most animated skeleton since Halloween...
Whether a whole chromosome or a single gene or a group of genes is responsible, genetic defects can affect every part of the human body and the mind. Dr. Victor McKusick of Johns Hopkins, the world's leading expert on dwarfism, supplied a forbidding list: abnormalities of the skeleton, of the innumerable enzyme systems, of the nervous system, of blood cells, both red and white, of clotting mechanisms, of the hormone systems, of the kidneys, of the intestinal tract, and of the muscles. The eyes and ears are also susceptible-there are about 40 varieties of hereditary deafness, said...
...subject matter and approach demand this treatment. To critics who see Weekend as the end of the line, one must mention Les Carabiniers, a film that uses moral imbeciles in just the same way to attack war. Its events are as senseless and brutal; its plot as much as skeleton device that barely holds the film together (the characters' journey through alien rural setting becomes very boring); its characters as much figures for the camera to follow, rather than sensibilities whose interaction with a setting must be described. The lack of personal development makes Les Carabiniers as disjointed and difficult...