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However, in regard to our work, you have the matter backwards. I should not like to leave anyone with the impression that Dr. Harrington and I, or any other scientists, had undertaken anything so fantastic as inventing a new native language, or a variant on an existing...
...Chaplin sticks to his script (he usually gets plenty of ideas on the set), The Great Dictator will open on a European battlefront in 1912, with Charlie shouldering arms for Ptomania (variant: Bacteria) against the "Alliars." After a series of Chaplinesque trench experiences, Charlie returns home to Ptomania's capital Ptom, soon finds everything being run by a little cock-of-the-walk named Hinkle. When "Furor" Hinkle appears, all cry Hail and even dachshunds must raise their legs. Hinkle's sidekick is Dictator Mussemup of Ostrich, an egomaniac who stops traffic when he wants to tell...
Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...
...ideas. In Persistent Sea a solid doorway melts into a vast, minutely painted ocean. In Mental Geography a modern angel with bomb fins instead of wings perches on a twisted cable of Brooklyn Bridge, ruined by bombing. In these and other paintings Guglielmi has developed a specifically American variant of Surrealism-grotesqueries dependent on rational rather than irrational meaning...
...like a good prospect than she discovers that the young executive whom she encountered as a model is her suitor's best friend and determined not to allow him to be victimized by a female fortune hunter. From here, The Rage of Paris plunges rapidly through every impossible variant of a not-too-original situation. Best line: comment of the driver of a milk truck when Nicole, wearing an elaborate evening gown, begs a lift: "These hitchhikers get better dressed every...