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...charge business and union with neglect in meeting their responsibilities in giving the consumer what he is led to believe he has paid for. Whether I pay $2.50 for a toy, $25 for wearing apparel, $2,500 for a car, $25,000 for a home, or $25 million for a Mercury shot, the product too often contains the same careless construction and careful avoidance of detail, quality and followup. There is more than quality of workmanship lacking-there is pride of workmanship...
...twisted bicycle. A flattened toy gun. A silver corkscrew. A blue-handled screwdriver. A brass hand mirror. A child's pencil case. A green alarm clock. A yellowed baby picture. A small wad of lire. A mattress. A red and black shawl. A lone playing card (the king of clubs). An ancient Olivetti typewriter. A crumpled Fiat. An electric pylon twisted off its concrete base. A church steeple protruding from the mud. Such were the scattered remains of a town called Longarone, which last week was wiped off the face of the earth...
...scenes are over before a number comes alive that really rocks the house-That man over there is Santa Claus, I know! I know! I know! Choreographer Michael Kidd reels off a twinkle-toed, rainbow-colored Macy's parade, and a fanciful sugarplum birthday party in the toy department, but it isn't enough to save the evening...
...promise of pardon for sins committed or intended by persons living or dead, provided one buys a letter of indulgence. After Luther nails his 95 theses to the Wittenberg door, he is summoned by the papal legate Cajetan (John Moffatt). Cajetan is a sly Roman cat who hopes to toy with a provincial mouse. Instead he faces a German mas tiff, correct but bristling. Cajetan employs tact, diplomacy, the accumulated wisdom of the church. Held in the awe some grip of revealed truth, Luther will not budge unless he can be refuted by Scripture. Cajetan pleads with...
...Trassy's" hair really GROWS when a key is turned in her back. The puppets have their own lines-eight or ten deathless phrases at the pull of a string. The toy car is not pulled by a string, not even attached to an electric cord with controls on one end, but operated by the young master by shining a flashlight on a built-in solar cell. The bear flees the juvenile hunter aimlessly around the room, uttering real bellows of pain when the blunted bullets find their mark. And while six-year-old space cadets are blasting...