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...looking for the secret of success at cards. The time is the early 19th century, at the height of the great Russian faro craze. The officer, played by Anton Walbrook in this British adaptation, is a very intense young man who believes in "taking life by the throat" to get what he wants. In the process of taking life by the throat, the officer delves into black magic, frightens a mysterious old countess to death, and eventually goes...
...Idle hands do the devil's work" is a tried and true saying that must have passed through that Eliot House man's mind. With a slow movement he put his cue on the table and cleared his throat...
...bloomed." But The Weeds, first of the four short stories that make up the bulk of Cast a Cold Eye (the remainder consists of New Yorkerized skeins of personal history), is a large bedful of just such dim petunias, wherein every muted "Ah!" suggests hoarse response to a throat specialist rather than the valid sound made by a Pascal truth-seeker...
...long campaign was beginning finally to bear fruit. But the Allied sense of urgency was still muffled by distrust of the Germans. Twice within a generation they had goose-stepped Europe, and the world, into war. Fellow Europeans had a saying: "The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet." Looking at the old enemy as a new friend, they could not help but ask: "The Germans to arms-again? And if not . . .?" The Western world was slowly coming to the realization that its choice was not between an armed and a disarmed Germany. Its choice...
...Benvenuto Cellini, Stevenson's Kidnapped and a production based on Hamlet in which a child, playing a private detective, will solve the murder of Hamlet's father. The only taboos on the show are still the words "Mom and "kiddies." Says Tripp: "They just stick in my throat." About all that wil] be added are a sponsor (Nestle's Chocolate) and a few more realistic props in the hope that they might, possibly, win over some teenagers...