Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere in Manhattan, best-selling Mystery Writers Richard & Frances Lockridge (The Norths Meet Murder) suffered a robbery with a mysterious touch of insult. The robbers spread Mrs. Lockridge's jewelry out on a dressing table and left it there, but decided to take a typewriter and an old overcoat...
...regrets the turn hockey has taken is taciturn Frank Boucher, an Irishman with a French name (rhymes with touché), who coaches the New York Rangers. Boucher, one of the greatest playmaking centers ever to wear skates, was one of the first coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five...
...hundreds of nettle needles to find out what was in them. They found two separate poisons, each with a special function. Acetylcholine causes the sudden burning (as if the nettle said: "Let me alone-and quick"). The other, histamine, starts the persistent itching ("Just as a reminder not to touch me again...
...Will Daisy (Joan Crawford), a well-heeled but struggling commercial artist, pry dashing Dana Andrews loose from his rich, neurotic wife (Ruth Warrick)? Or do Dana's little daughters mean too much to him? Or will Joan marry Henry Fonda, a widower and ex-soldier so little in touch with this world that he even forgets to keep a date with...
Clever, opium-puffing Producer Cocteau (his fans call him "the cleverest man alive") has allowed his pipe dreams only a soupcon of surrealist-Freudian flavor. The surreal touch is applied to several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds...