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Variety, the old saw says, is the spice of life-and for sheer spice nothing beats the month...
...Senator does answer questions in an affirmative or negative spirit, it is always with some elaboration of the simple one syllable answer. Several phrases serve for "yes." One witness might reply with a string of "that is correct"s, sprinkling a few "that is right"s in as conservational spice. Mr. Wclch once raised himself above the Senatorial herd by making it "that is precisely right...
Flocks of robins flew up from the sycamore branches. A male and female American merganser were flushed from the riverbank and swooped over the valley. Purple finches bustled in the branches. The call of the titmouse was clear from the field. The spice bushes were in bud, and along the banks of the Potomac the willows were greening. Red maple was already painting the woods. From the bog water in the old unused canal came the song of peeper frogs...
Good songs could have compensated for this dullness, but Top Banana never had any. The film lacks variety, and undoubtedly much of its spice has gone with the censors...
...another point, they felt their way along the face of a rock wall, stepping on a 6-in. plank held in place by ancient iron spikes. But eventually the sun came out. Robins flew up from the sycamore branches; the call of the titmouse came clearly from nearby fields. Spice bushes were in bud, and peeping frogs sang in the bog water of the old canal...