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...helter-skelter chases-e.g., from an off-limits Japanese bathhouse to an airport-are conducted by practically every means of locomotion from foot to Army truck. Also involved are a renegade American (Russell Johnson) smuggling explosives into North Korea, a slinky Eurasian (Mari Blanchard), a harassed MP major (Vaughn Taylor) and an apoplectic general (Barry Kelley...
...Pickwick (freely adapted from Charles Dickens by Stanley Young) transfers The Pickwick Papers very pleasantly to the stage. What results, to be sure, is no longer exactly The Pickwick Papers: in writing for the theater, Playwright Young has been forced to domesticate one of the most gallivanting and helter-skelter of narratives, and hence to sacrifice a good deal of its hearty coaching flavor and its wildly exuberant fun. Moreover, in the act of boiling down the contents of the book, he has scrambled them as well. But if this is a thinner-blooded Pickwick, it is also a more...
...Troubles. At Martin, Wonder Boy Bunker will have to perform wonders. Last year, though the company had a backlog of $400 million, it lost an estimated $22 million. Part of Martin's troubles stern from its helter-skelter expansion after Korea. Its work force mushroomed from 7,500 to 23,000; the average length of employment among its workers dropped from twelve years to six months. Turnover jumped from 12% to 70%, and absenteeism soared...
Critics who may object to such a choice of exports from the U.S. are likely to be reminded that most of their predecessors stuffily condemned every new art movement since Manet. Yet there is nothing really new about U.S. abstractionism. It is just more helter-skelter than the kind practiced in Europe ever since World...
...earlier films, 1942's My Favorite Blonde. But for all these heavy mortgages, Hope and his five writers pay a good rate of comic interest: rapid-fire gags, uproarious burleyque bits such as those that enrich Broadway's current Top Banana, and an oldfashioned, helter-skelter movie chase in which Hedy drives a fire truck through old Tangier with Hope perilously clinging to its raised ladder...