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...passenger list roughly equivalent to the original's but the trip from Dryfork to Cheyenne through Sioux territory is dull going. Mostly, the air of mounting crisis is indicated by having the actors glare at one another. As the fugitive Ringo Kid, Alex Cord can barely squeak by in Wayne's roomy old boots. Cord looks bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought to sit home some night...
...autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm. Little Sylvia tried to be Daddy's darling. At three she knew the Latin names of hundreds of insects-whenever a bumblebee bumbled by, the pretty little poppet would squeak: "Bombus bimaculatus...
...swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like...
...laughed loud and long when I read about unruly audiences [Jan. 21]. But there is one sound left unmentioned-that of a nursing baby. I listened to that through a Rubinstein concert. First the baby chewed on a rubber pacifier-that has a kind of squeak. Then there was a new sound and so help me, the mother was nursing her baby. Rubinstein looked right over the keyboard at us, and played sublimely on-possibly because he had become a father not too many years before...
After centuries as the playing field of England's budding politicians, Oxford University understandably plays its own games of academic politics in mock-heroic earnest. Harold Macmillan twice won the prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship. "There's nothing most dons [professors] like better than a good bitchy election," observed the Sunday Times. Last week the bitchiest one in years had Oxford-and the nation -twittering as the port was passed...