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...British government for help. Having boned up on modern weaponry, he requested a submarine to combat the river's savage saurians-and also to provide himself with a little sport. But Whitehall was not willing to proliferate dangerous weapons. The Litunga ended up with only a dress sword, a British admiral's uniform, and a vague feeling of frustration...
Traditional sword dancers, precisely terraced rice paddies, and a shot of a misty Chinese village at dawn, sent ohh-ing intakes of breath throughout the house. Mao appeared on the screen, and some of his U.S. fans--sitting in a bloc on the right side of the theatre--applauded, while a half dozen Chinese graduate students--conspicuously on the left--shhhhed loudly...
...knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation, we may be forgiven for saying: One cannot treat a nation like a juvenile delinquent-always under the moral sword, a potential criminal until he proves the contrary...
...Barrett begat a script based loosely on Fulton Oursler's bestseller, on the Old and New Testament, and on other writings ancient and modern. His goal, Stevens proclaimed, was to create a definitive biography, "a Biblical classic that has vigor in ideas-with no souped-up spectacles, no sword fights, no bacchanalian orgies...
...France is a perfume." He is sometimes eccentrically decorative, as when he fondles a favorite word (panache, chryselephantine) or interpolates an essay on ancient music or a sermon on international law. However entertaining, the devices are finally irrelevant and intrusive. Their cumulative effect is as pointless as a sword swallower who decides to eat the hilt first because the paste jewels seem so bright and chewy...