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...single actor or actress of any considerable reputation is involved in the goings-on, which goes to show that ordinary people behaving quite naturally can produce a move excellently acted all the way through, even down to the smallest character role. If there is a central figure, he is the misguided youth--the son of a naval hero who "went down with the Athenia"--duped into the service of the party. He dies tapping out a wireless message which leads to the apprehension of his former associates...
...especially Guinness of course, are really acting, not just saying lines. Fully as much of the humor in the picture comes from small gestures, various wrinklings of faces, tones of voice, as from the lines or the situations themselves. Nothing is done without a purpose; every move, even the smallest, is invested with some meaning and contributes something to a characterization or a situation...
...going famously in the East. New York's cherished 45 electoral votes were clearly Ike's: Stevenson's lead in New York City was far short of what he needed to balance the Republicans upstate. (Stevenson finally carried New York City by only 362,674, the smallest Democratic presidential lead since 1924.) Republican Senatorial Candidate Irving Ives was rolling up the largest plurality of any G.O.P. candidate in New York history since the big sweep of Warren G. Harding. Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick finally conceded both races...
...intercollegiate competition, Davidson is a member of the Southern Conference, composed of such teams as Washington and Lee, North Carolina State, the Citadel, Furman, and others. Davidson is by far the smallest school in this conference, and has never fared really well in football, although Davidson's teams in other sports have many times led the league...
...middle-definers is the cinch belt. Strictly speaking, the cinch is a flat, rather wide, belt of almost any material--from humble grosgrain to velvet and fur--with an uncompromising elastic backing which allows the wearer to breathe a little while it nips her waistline to its smallest possible circumference. "Cinch" will probably become a generic term, however, for any belt playing a prominent role in costuming, including the classic brass-buckled leather belt as well as the shaped belt which tucks in at the waistline and spreads out to cover part of the rib cage above and emphasize...