Word: tenterhook
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Civilization stinks. This is the message of virtually every nature-vj.-nurture parable to hit the screen lately, from Splash to Greystoke to this feral melodrama about the encounter between a group of Arctic scientists and a prehistoric man they find miraculously preserved in ice. Tenterhook anxiety builds in the film's first hour as the scientists (led by Timothy Hutton and Lindsay Crouse) discover and then thaw out the creature (played by the gifted actor-director-choreographer John Lone). But once Hutton and the creature establish contact, moviegoers must make a great leap of faith, or surrender...
...York Yankees, who had zoomed into the lead on Labor Day, muffed their final chance on home territory, dropping three straight to the Philadelphia A's. The heat was on. But the unhappy Yanks, moving into the hostile West for the tenterhook last 13 days, hoped Rookie Pitcher Mel Queen (5-1) and Veteran Hank Borowy (17-9) might turn the tide right back again in this week's series with the Detroit Tigers...
...Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough to cover the threadbare situation in which these persons take part...
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