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Murder on the Orient Express emphasizes the sentimental aspects of the Agatha Christie novel it's based on. It presents no layer of cynicism to be penetrated, the kind of tough-minded shell Bogart provided to make sure the final pill wasn't too sweet to swallow. The moral situation on the Orient Express is black and white, and the detective shares everyone's assumptions about right and wrong. There can be no classic confrontations because at bottom everyone agrees. This film doesn't have the kind of hypnotic effect that leaves you spouting its dialogue days later...
Dermatologists at M.G.H. and the All-gemeines Krankenhausen in Vienna have modernized that technique. The new treatment combines the use of a drug called methoxsalen, which is extracted from the Egyptian plant, and an extraordinary high-intensity ultraviolet light. First the dermatologists have the patient swallow methoxsalen pills. Then they stand him in a telephone-booth-size closet lined with 48 of the special ultraviolet tubes. The patient stays in the booth from eight to 30 minutes, depending upon his degree of skin coloration...
Actually, the legislators are the whipping boys of recalcitrant schools and universities--institutions that have found equal opportunity in hiring a harder pill to swallow in a time of recession than in bygone days of plenty...
...just a rout. For the Quakers, it was a brutal realization that they are not going to win the title they have dreamed of for many years. With Marty Vaughn and Adolph Bellizeare playing their final games in a Red and Blue uniform, that fact must be tough to swallow...
...forced by financial hardship to ask his charity. She does so only after great deliberation, and then almost instantaneously decides to become a loving mother-in-law as well. This unnatural, almost absurd changes of heart towards Sara makes Deborah's subsequent rapport with her hard to swallow...