Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somehow got the impression that your reviewer would have preferred a more "modern" locale for the story-perhaps Cuba just prior to the collapse of the Batista regime. I can just see the mountainside love scene. Jordan (Errol Flynn would be perfect in the role) leers at Maria and wheezes: "Baby, this really swings...
...Hugo Black cracked that "This notion is too subtle for me to grasp," was joined in his usual hard core of liberals by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas. "The court apparently takes the position," charged Black, "that a second trial for the same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a state." In a surprising aside he noted that the majority opinions would work a hardship only on "the poor and the weak without friends in high places" who could "influence prosecutors...
Other committee members attacked the bugaboo of cirrhosis of the liver, managed to convince themselves that it was a greatly exaggerated hazard, because in a sampling at a big Paris hospital. 35% of the cirrhosis victims survived the disease. Somehow, this struck the committee as more significant than the fact that almost twice as many died...
...from certain liquidation by Chicago mobsters. Witnesses to a gangland slaying reminiscent of the St.Valentine's Day Massacre, the disguised Curtis and Lemmon light out for Miami with an all-girl band. As gents of lusty instincts, the proximity to pulchritudinous musicians strains their ambition to remain disguised, but somehow they persevere. Curtis eventually executes some fancy footwork to win Miss Monroe, and despite every effort to avoid it, Lemmon wins Joe E. Brown-in the role of a vacationing millionaire...
Mother Advocate is back! Her complexion somehow freshening in the spring sun, her wheel-chair gliding effortlessly as if oiled by vernal juices, she sits serenely by various newsstands in the Square, happily disproving the pessimists who bet this doughty octogenarian would never live the winter through...