Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...
Producer Babb, sparkplug of this unusual moviemaking team, pushes Mom and Dad as if it were snake oil. The film is shown only to unmixed audiences after a town has been saturated with a ballyhoo campaign that leaves no one but the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help...
...dukes and British businessmen made porcelain manufacture a thriving industry-and something of an art. Then, as now, porcelains were valued more for their sentimental qualities than for their measure of esthetic worth, but sometimes they had both. The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de EJavilland as the mental patient (TIME...
...cemetery shed is inhabited by a certain Mrs. Lily Sammile, a fluttery woman (though "rather like a chicken fluttering round the glass walls of a snake's cage") of no determinable age, with a face that was once beautiful. She is very sociable indeed ("She meets one continually and she's at things. She calls"), but not very good company. ("It was said that they whom she overtook were found drained and strangled in the morning, and a single hair tight about the neck, so faint, so sure, so deathly...