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Grind means to weep for the hard times of 1933, encompassing everything from segregation and the Depression to the woes of a refugee Irish terrorist. The terrorist sings not one but two songs about how he blew up a train on which, unknown to him, his wife and son were passengers; this is by no means the unlikeliest coincidence in which he is involved. An aging comedian whose sight is failing wanders into a backdrop (he has also somehow lost his sense of direction) and, fearing the loss of his job, shoots himself. Apparently neither he nor anyone else...
...time-honored customs is not necessarily the arrival of the unneeded new but the abolition of the cherished old. To people who don't like flying, for example, it is depressing to realize that there is virtually no other way to get to Europe and that the passenger train, like the luxury liner, may soon be one with the stagecoach. To people accustomed to writing on manual typewriters, it is exasperating to learn that production has virtually ceased, and that the supply of accessories and spare parts keeps shrinking...
...example, the contemplation of how Oskar might train his anus to speak instead of fart is just one of a multitude of Oskar’s fantasized inventions. Another is a birdseed shirt, so that when wingless humans need to “make a quick escape,” birds, pecking at the seed, can lift the wearer away from danger. A third is an elevator which stays in the same place while the skyscraper it serves moves up and down so that “if you’re on the ninety-fifth floor, and a plane...
...some of the infamous rumors circulating around Hitchcock. He apparently never left Madeleine Carroll and Robert Donat handcuffed together for a whole day while shooting The 39 Steps, nor his daughter Pat suspended on a ferris wheel in the dark for hours on the set of Strangers on a Train. It does appear however that he said, “Actors are cattle,” though he denies it, and that there was a great deal of tension between him and Tippi Hedren after filming The Birds and Marnie together...
After the graduation of last year’s Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, Kara Brotemarkle, ’04 a top priority during the off-season was to train and develop a powerful and consistent pitching staff...