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...Guild's award for outstanding movie achievement had been presented to someone other than a producer. President Kennedy, ex-Presidents Eisenhower and Truman telegraphed their congratulations. And then, "with great pride," surrounded by a boodle of filmdom's most glittering stars, the old tunesmith clogged every throat when he hopped to the piano to God Bless America, as only Irving...
...vaudeville show, really, started off by a couple of sensational jugglers and featuring a wildly improbable first act finale: a rousing fest of gospel song by the Clara Ward Singers. Nightclub Singer Jane Morgan, tall, strong, blonde, cute-cute, and amply chestiferous, sings well with sex in her throat, and allows Benny to kiss her as if he were Robert Goulet (in mid-embrace, he notices her ring, whips out a jeweler's glass and studies her diamond...
...divide, they will fall upon one another. That is the real meaning of your armaments; you must devour or be devoured. And it is precisely these trade relations which it was thought would knit you in the bonds of peace, while, by making every one of you cut-throat rivals of the others, have brought you within reasonable distance of a general war of extermination...
...Trial. "The right perception of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude one another." This slyly smiling sentence, inserted by Franz Kafka in the final pages of The Trial, holds a subtle point at the throat of any man so rash as to interpret the most eerie and profound of all the fables written by the apocalyptic insurance clerk of Prague. Is The Trial a psychotic nightmare, the case history of a persecution complex, an allegory on the theme of justice, a prophetic vision of the totalitarian state, an analysis...
...pigeon continues to stare at him with a baleful red eye. ''If I look at it long enough it will go away,'' the old man thinks. The pigeon pecks at his shoe. "Go away," the old man cries, kicking the pigeon in the throat; and it promptly keels over. That night the pigeon joins the other ghosts in the old man's room...