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...know, I've only summarized. But it's stupid to give reasons for comic genius, when you can give a snatch of the comedy itself. I don't have space even to mention the superb Shakespeare bit--easily the most sustained piece of comedy in the show. But surely the burden of my message is clear. Beyond the Fringe is great. Beyond the Fringe is terrific. Beyond the Fringe is the show not to miss this year...
...indecent to snatch up the Radcliffe Freshman Register and pore over the photographs. Be neither excited nor numbed, neither aroused nor repulsed, neither elevated nor depressed. The sophisticated one (male) in search of the sophisticatee (feminine ending) is the model of calculation. His campaign has two parts: discerning the prospects, and electing the winner...
GENERAL MOTORS hopes to snatch off some of the Thunderbird market with its all-new Buick Riviera, which looks like an outsized version of Volkswagen's Karmann Ghia with a big American grille. The Riviera will have a 117-in. wheelbase, 340-h.p. engine, and come in a four-passenger, two-door, hardtop model. Chevrolet, also hoping to cut in on the Thunderbird, plans to introduce a Corvette model with the "fastback look" (Detroitese for the convex rear lines popularized by Jaguar's hot XK-E). The big Chevrolet will have its rear doctored to resemble the pointed...
Even in San Francisco, few purse-snatch stories rate much attention from the press...
...relax. Too many characters in it rant and shout; too often the camera sweeps in dizzying circles. One is left physically exhausted at the end. But it is, perhaps, worth it to see Judy Garland gone to seed (way over the rainbow) and hear Marlene Dietrich sing a snatch of Lili Marlene. The producers of the film undoubtedly think they have made the epic of the decade and solved all possible moral questions of Nazi Germany...