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...Irish joke has been around for a long time, and The Quiet Man clings safely to its durable components: temper, thirst, and whimsey. But two hours and ten minutes of wry smiles and roguish glances, even from masters Ward Bond and Barry Fitzgerald, are pretty wearing...
...journalism both books are adequate, not because journalism implies sloppy writing, but because they satisfy the voter's thirst for facts. They are full of information about Stevenson's career, his background, his personality, his views, and his way of attacking problems. And after all, what more does the public want from such a book at a time like this...
...eloquent on the evils of hard liquor. She seldom understands a double-meaning joke, and if she does, she is annoyed. While on location for The African Queen, Director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart would often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily: "You boys think you're awfully wicked, don't you? Why, you don't know what the word 'wicked' means." That settled their hash. Says Bogart, still brooding over it: "Now what the hell she meant by that...
...member of the first team to scale "unconquerable" Mount Fitz Roy (alt. 10,958 ft.) in Patagonia, the climbers approached the Dru with a healthy respect. In earlier assaults on it, they had been beaten by a rockslide and a five-day snowstorm. This time hunger and thirst stopped them about 650 ft. from the summit after they had scaled an obstinate dièdre, a rock ledge jutting out like the edge of doom. Forced to return to their base camp, the mountaineers picked up more food and an extra supply of pitons, the big spikes with eyelets through...
...Ringleader Dickens presented the rioters' demands. "We're not asking for no hotel," he said. But the convicts wanted a full investigation of prison food and the prisoners' complaints of brutal treatment. Fearful for the safety of the hostages, officials decided to wait for hunger and thirst to break the revolt...