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Family life at the Harringtons' is one long parental tug-of-war in which the children serve as the rope. The daughter (Annette Gorman), a sunny child just turning into her teens, seems able to stand the strain. But the son (Richard Beymer), an unstable boy in his first year at Harvard, starts to come apart as mother tries to get him away from father, and father tries to get him away from Harvard and into the furniture business...
...think of your trouble when the canopy opens, either can guarantee that. You'll be too joyed, as I was when I heard the "pop" and felt the firm tug of chute...
Three-Way Tug. To be true to nature, says Moore, the sculptor must probe, not merely reflect. But he must also be true to his materials, for wood, metal and stone are also a part of nature. Pebbles worn by the sea "show nature's way of working stone. Some of the pebbles I pick up have holes right through them." Moore gouges holes in his sculpture to "make it immediately more three-dimensional." The making of a sculpture becomes a three-way tug of war between the inner life of the subject, the rhythm of the material...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams, makes a tethered lizard a symbol of the condition of man, while above it, on a Mexican veranda, Bette Davis, Patrick O'Neal and Margaret Leighton tug with poetic fury at fetters of mind, body and spirit...
...than to find the answers to them. Recently, three U.S. scientists were pulling a fish trap through a hole in the ice when a seal rose through the hole with a big fish in its jaws. The scientists struggled with the seal for the fish, won after a desperate tug of war. The fish, 52 in. long and weighing 58 Ibs., turned out to be an unknown species of a family that was not supposed to be swimming in those cold waters. With it are surely swimming hundreds of other interesting creatures also unknown to science...