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Doulos-The Finger Man. Lippy Jean-Paul Belmondo, who first made crime pay as a pint-size Bogart in Breathless, now proves himself a magnum Cagney who can rough up a moll in vintage Chicago style. When Jean-Paul wants blonde Thérèse to rat on a pal, he slugs her, ties her wrists to her ankles, loops a belt around her neck and lashes it to a radiator pipe, gags her, decants a bottle of Haig & Haig over her while she's down, slugs her again. "Now sweetheart, baby, act sensibly," he coos...
...traditionally head for Africa (Conrad, Gide, Paul Bowles). If, on the other hand, the blossoming of a long-repressed joie de vivre is the theme, then sunny Italy will unlock the passion in the tourist's heart (Goethe, Mann, E. M. Forster). But whoever would have thought of th Soviet Union as an emotional catalyst? Well, nobody, until British Satirist Anthony Burgess came along...
Proponents of the Weinberg technique retort that Dr. Weinberg has had a death rate of only one-half of 1% among 1,129 patients since 1947. Thus, they say, even if the cure rate for a first operation is a few percentage points lower than w:th more drastic surgery, this is more than compensated for by the lower death rate...
...gentle nudge in the ribs, not a body blow. "Rayformers is in favor iv suppressin' ivrything," Mr. Dooley once said, "but rale pollyticians believes in suppressin' nawthin' but ivi-dence." A favorite Dooley target was John D. Rockefeller: "He looks afther his own money an' th' money iv other people. He takes it and puts it where it won' hurt thim an' they won't spoil it. He's a kind iv society f r th' previntion iv croolty to money." Mr. Dooley deplored the jingoism of the Spanish-American...
...Dunne deserves to be remembered for his more lighthearted days, when not even Montaigne was Mr. Dooley's master: "Thrust ivrybody but cut th' ca-ards." "A vote on th' talleysheet is worth two in th' box." "Most vigi-taryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannybals...