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Seesaw has its ups and downs, among them MacLaine and Mitchum. On Broadway, Anne Bancroft opened her veins and transfused the audience with hot red gouts of life and laughter; in the film, MacLaine turns on her talent like a spigot, and out comes a cooler flow of charm and humor. On Broadway, Henry Fonda was a mirror skillfully held to reflect the heroine; in the film, Mitchum is just another blank wall in her cold-water flat. Still and all, in the passage from Broadway to Hollywood, not too much of the Gibson has been spilled...
...even after all the issues had been clearly drawn, Gonzalez said, Gould still found himself on the defensive, in spite of "Texas conservatism." He was then forced to "open the spigot of personal abuse" Gould encouraged a group of his supporters with the words, "Just remember, there are less than 30,000 Latin American voters in this country, and more than...
...their own best friends, and in the archly mingled inflections of Cupid and cupidity queries each promising male: "What line are you in?" Robert Weede and Mimi Benzell play the romantic leads, and their rich, Met-seasoned voices carry an uncommonly melodic score. Grey-haired Songster Weede is a spigot of ageless charm, and he is turned...
Since some customers have no special skills, Robbins sells a "Martini Trophy" that practically anybody can own. Made of jeweler's bronze, it is a cup and spigot that dispenses drinks, costs only...
Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot, an empty oil can on her head. To buy bread and rice, she scavenged scrap paper, selling it to a junkman and getting as much as 30? "on good days." But Carolina's nights, in recent years, were quite untainted by the brawling and raw sex that surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack...