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...only funny lines occur in Woody Allen's and, to a much lesser extent, Peter Seller's scenes. About to be shot down by a firing squad, Allen--as Sir James Bond's nephew Jimmy Bond--protests, "I have a low threshold of death." Sellers, being fitted for a spy outfit, is asked, "Which side do you dress?" and he answers, "Away from the window, usually." But since the scenes without these two are so repulsively unfunny, one is led to believe both Sellers and Allen did a good lot of improvising. Particularly Allen, whose entire performance resembles...
...professional career as a neurologist, then switched to the social and analytic sides of psychiatry. He says that his approach is "basically Freudian," but of his Yale department he insists: "We are undogmatic, uncommitted to any particular point of view or school of thought. We are at the threshold of a broad new psychiatry that will use the knowledge of many disciplines...
...than 36 tablets to a bottle, each tablet of not more than 1¼-grain strength, or one-fourth the potency of the conventional tablet for adults. The FDA's Dr. Basil G. Delta figures that one grain of aspirin per pound of body weight is the danger threshold. So, if a five-year-old weighing the average 45 Ibs. for his age gobbled a whole 45-grain bottle of the future children's aspirin, he would be sick, but would almost certainly recover. For a smaller child the results could be more serious. Some FDA advisers would...
...fellow sculptor in honor of the groveling husband in Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days. Not all of Smith's imagery is negative. One of his works is a simple 10-ft.-high, well-proportioned arch that invites the viewer to pass through. "It is like a threshold," says Smith. "My friends say it looks sort of soft and tender, but, to me, at the same time it also looks the least bit rough and harsh." Aptly enough, it is titled Marriage...
...alcoholic trance, Hjalmar's father stocks the attic with birds and rabbits, at which he takes an occasional potshot when he is in a hunting mood. Hjalmar himself is a dilettantish portrait photographer whose wife manages the business while he nurses the mirage that he is on the threshold of a world-shaking scientific discovery. The little girl (Jennifer Harmon) is content merely to love her supposed father and her pet wild duck...