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...such things happen, but only under the most patient analysis. Actually, the plot's crazily mystifying, nightmare blur is an asset, and only one of many. By far the strongest is Bogart, who can get into a minor twitch of the mouth the force of a slug from an automatic. Another is Producer-Director Howard Hawks's fellow feeling for the Chandler world: even on the chaste screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly laced with hints of dope addiction, voyeurism and fornication. A round dozen...
...your attitude that is doing so much to prevent people from realizing that jazz has real musical value. You want to think that hot jazz fans are immoral alcoholics, taking those reefers out of their mouths just long enough to take another slug of gin. It makes a much better story, no doubt. . . . When you print material on jazz, you should carefully consider whether or not you are unconsciously slanting it toward what the public (that foul-minded public) wants to hear...
Pasty-faced Preacher Gudger (he had "the body of a garden slug, the soul of a gimlet, and the morals of a beagle") looked pretty Romajean up & down, blinked, licked his lips, and allowed that maybe he could arrange to oblige. So Romajean came to sing in the choir of the Primitive Pentacostal Host Church, and Gudger figured that he had added another tender ewe lamb to his flock. Preacher Gudger's flock was largely old goat and tough mutton: Old Lady Clutiebelle Tippy, Thrash Mancil, Miz Pinniz Nice, Crave Tollett and a few dozen other crackers from...
...your issue of March 18, you refer to Mr. Winston Churchill as follows: "According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs." Also: "His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him." You are probably right, but I am reminded of a legend about President Lincoln during the War between the States. When some character was complaining to President Lincoln about the Northern General Grant's proclivities for whiskey, Lincoln is said to have remarked that he would find out the brand of whiskey that General Grant used and send a barrel...
...shaved. One old grad, Colonel Egbert White, fired a hot protest to Chief of Staff Eisenhower, called Lee's order " a drastic departure from the policies you established and supported." (In Paris, an officer once ordered Stars and Stripes to do something for the boys: print as a slug line between every story "HAVE YOU KILLED YOUR GERMAN TODAY?" He Was talked...