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...story takes place in an 18th Century château, where even the secret panels have secret panels, where Boris Karloff keeps the keys to the dungeons, and evil servants slink about among torture contraptions apparently devised by some medieval Rube Goldberg. Lording it over this den of vipers, slobbering over great platters of mutton, and fondling his foul schemes, sits Seigneur Laughton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...visit to earth, learns that she has at last been vindicated, and will in the end be canonized. "Now tell me," Joan asks amid the general rejoicing, "shall I . . . come back to you a living woman?" Horrified and appalled, her auditors can only mumble and fumble and slink away. It is a scene of lively Shavian comedy, but embedded in it is bitter realistic tragedy, an awareness that the Joans are glorified much less for being great than for being so conveniently dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play In Manhattan, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...snarling, point-eared dope peddler whose viciously lupine features were matched only by his surly character. One day, shortly before his release, the Wolf came to Dr. Stanley and with unwonted meekness begged that something be done about his face. He was tired, said the Wolf, of having people slink away whenever they saw him. Dr. Stanley smoothed out his gash-like wrinkles, trimmed down his ears, sent the rejuvenated Wolf back into the world personable enough to date Red Riding Hood. Since then, The Croaker has uncrossed scores of shifty eyes, remodeled many a jutting jaw and crooked nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Croaker | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...fact that most of the material in this issue is difficult to grasp does not, however, mean that the reader should slink back to Quick without at least testing his mettle. He can feel safe, with this issue of the Advocate, that he will get something for his effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Shelf | 3/22/1951 | See Source »

...ladies and medical students poured in, Rep. Nathanson went to bat for his bill. Only dogs and cats condemned to die anyway would be used he insisted. "Do you really think that doctors slink around in corners looking for dogs they can torture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

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