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Goalies Beware. But when he laces on his shoulder pads, the brawny old pro is all vinegar. "There is nothing Gordie can't do except sit on the bench," says Frank Selke, managing director of the Montreal Canadiens. Most players favor one hand. Howe can blast with either hand, and his huge wrists and forearms-toughened by summers of "throwing" concrete and gravel-propel the puck toward the net at 90 m.p.h. What sometimes seems like uncanny accuracy comes from Howe's study of every goalie's weakness: "Some are vulnerable to rebounds-like Glenn Hall...
Sordi at 42 is a clever straightface comic rather like Peter Sellers served with oil and vinegar. But he cannot elude a tricky problem the picture poses : how to put Mars in motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror, like flint against steel, and hope that sparks will fly. Now and then they do, but usually they don't; and they don't because the humor is too mild, too healthy, too Italian. Director Comencini might as well be striking flint against ravioli...
Clinton, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: The Vinegar Tree with Faye Emerson...
...could get his trousers away from Abe. "Crusty-faced Democrats never were no good,' he mumbled to himself." Bert gets his pants back at the end of a story which, in the telling, is somehow a quick-sketch portrait, but never a caricature, of the two old vinegar sippers...
...disguise ('and when you have found him, bring me word, that I may also come and worship him'); to Judas, the original businessman with the contract in the pocket; and to the anonymous vulgar Jewish farceur who, in answer to Christ's 'Eli', eh' forced a reed filled with vinegar between His lips." The twin masks of the Jew-mutilator and usurer thus had Biblical sanction "at a time when literature flourished under clerical auspices and when nine tenths of the corpus poeticum derived from Biblical paraphrases and martyrologies. . ." In ballads and morality plays the two roles were already being...