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...answer: On Borrowed Time, which Scott also directed (moving its era from the edgy late 1930s to the innocent-seeming years before World War I), is a splendid vehicle for the winsome tricks of a veteran cast. Teresa Wright, whose 1942 Oscar for Mrs. Miniver makes Scott's 1970 award for Patton seem recent, flutters and flusters as the grandmother. Bette Henritze whinnies and hectors as an interfering aunt. Conrad Bain wheedles and soothes as the family doctor. In Scott's wiliest staging, he, Bain, and George DiCenzo test whether death has been suspended by circling around a poisoned housefly...
...splendid, absolutely marvelous," said Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...haven't heard of this being done before," Somerville added. "I think it's a splendid idea...
...studios are small, usually consisting of 10 to 20 designers, most of them American (10 of 13 at Mazda, all 20 at Mitsubishi). Because their headquarters are thousands of miles away, the designers stationed in California exist in splendid -- and creatively productive -- isolation, relatively free from the kill-joy scrutiny of bean counters, marketing drones and engineers. "After a year in the U.S.," says Gerhard Steinle, chief of the Mercedes studio, "I see how important it is to be away from the factory...
...Splendid, the reader thinks, wall building at its best. And as the bath water cools around the islands of his knees, he follows Wilkinson through nearly 100 pages of close observation of a small village called Angoon, burned in 1882 by the U.S. Navy in a bloody-minded show of force. The author does not argue that Tlingit culture before the coming of white men was noble (arguing is not his style), but clearly it was strong and coherent. Now in Angoon, after successive incursions by Russian fishermen, the Navy, Stateside Presbyterian missionaries of ineffable arrogance, and present-day loggers...