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There were the raucous curses of a fat Kentucky harridan and the horrid spit of a North Carolina fanatic. But there was the fine, quiet dignity of a pretty, besieged Negro girl in Charlotte, and the warm and courageous heart of a gentle, white-haired woman in Little Rock. Where men and women of good will and good sense prevailed, the difficult, tradition-shattering, inevitable change moved...
...Dulles to deal with a whore like Saud, or a bum like Franco to get his objectives? Hoffa found he had to work with Dio to bring his people into the union. When you work with a man to win an objective, you can't turn around and spit in his face. Working with Dio for a certain goal doesn't lower Jimmy's moral standards. He has the highest moral standards of anyone...
...spit-&-polish naval attache who takes over the refloated ship after the Amethyst's captain dies of his wounds, Richard Todd is so convincing that the movie conveys a real-thing flavor. It car ries all the blood-and-sweat conviction of a candid film chronicle made on the spot...
...signs of acting, but the movie does sag a bit into detect able histrionics when Akim Tamiroff, as a cunning Red warlord, shows up as a negotiator and puts on a dazzling display of inscrutability. The months wear on, and Lieut. Commander Todd begins to understand the superiority of spit to polish. At last, with the courage of a heart made whole, Todd runs the battered vessel past artillery-lined riverbanks on a wild, 140-mile nighttime dash to sea. It is all history now, but the capable direction of Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has made...
There is opportunity for wild humor in the outcroppings Humphrey must negotiate in his scramble to the top-the office sweater girl; an addled old clerk who has sandbagged his office with 67 filing cabinets full of senselessly duplicated detritus dating from 1939: and a villainous colonel whose spit-and-demolish approach to bureaucracy reaches peaks of brassbound unreason. But Drohan shows no real talent for his chosen business, satire; instead, he insists on trying to make the reader take Humphrey's doubts and flounderings seriously. A Candide may get into frightful predicaments, but under the rules...