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Moreover, there isn't much action - only jokes about the tomcat in men, the pussy cat in women, the peacock in actors. Nor has famed French Cinema Director Rene Clair (A Nous, La Liberté!) shown the French touch in his staging. Everybody just cavorts...
Grand Inquisitor. James Boswell was a drunkard, a tomcat, a toady, a conceited ass and at times a consummate nuisance; but he produced almost as great a book as Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his biographers have been unable to get past Boswell's faults and a few have tried to argue them away, but Mr. Quennell has done the pudgy Scot exact justice. He has seen-but also seen past-the clown who strutted about the Shakespeare Jubilee in Corsican fancy dress...
...Caxton printed them. Again Reynard tempts pompous, grasping Brown the Bear to search for honey in a split log, knocks out the wedges and traps him fast. Again he steals the sausage from sniveling Poodle Wackerlos, shows that Wackerlos stole the sausage from treacherous Hintze the Tomcat, who in turn stole it from the miller's wife. Again he cheerfully seduces Isengrim's willing wife and later pleads: "One thing I want credit for, however, and that is keeping quiet about the business. If Isengrim had shown equally good sense, there would have been no scandal whatever...
...Indianapolis News heaped scorn on the Indiana Legislature: "With utter fearlessness the Legislature at last is getting around to the business of doing something final and remedial about the bullfrog crisis. In the process of enactment also are war measures dealing with the mussel, the raccoon and the migratory tomcat...
...dress, was already clamoring for "24 hours of bliss." Later, in a crowded and craning nightclub, the young women engaged in five hours of psychological warfare over the old man. Said Diana: 'Either she leaves or I do." Fifteen hours later, polishing off his whiskers like a pleased tomcat, John Barrymore emerged from the Hotel Navarro, told reporters: "I'm back with my sweetsie...