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Lust for Life is still excellent and still at the Kenmore. Van Gogh gets exceptional color photography, and Kirk Douglas rarely gets in the way. Anastasia makes little out of a lovely thing, but Ingrid Bergman is superb. Helen Hayes and Yul Brynner wander in and out every now and then. At RKO Keith. The Great Man is dead. Long live his greatness? Jose Ferrer snoops around tensely, and says no. A tidy film. At the Beacon Hill. Baby Doll doesn't deserve all the publicity but contains three brilliant performances--by Eli Wallach, Karl Malden, and baby-blond newcomer...
Julius' and Melanie's main aim in life is not to get bored to death, so they wander feebly to Spain and France, their pockets full of Merz money, their lives empty of solid interests. When Melanie dies (of tubercular tedium), Julius leaves their daughter to be raised by the kindly Merzes, and marries an Englishwoman who is kind to his pets. The stalemated wanderings begin again: soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster...
...average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering chaos of ships and men," the massacres in the beam of a German searchlight, the tragic survivors, a few of whom were found wander ing days later in England, not knowing "who they were or where they were...
...life by leaping between him and an assassin, taking the descending knife in his shoulder. Saud's concepts of government were formed in a land where there are few inner boundaries, and sheiks control not a domain but a tribe constantly on the move as their flocks wander in search of pasture. The Old Lion ruled them through the power of the sword, held their allegiance with the promise of protection and with gifts, cemented it with his prodigious sexual prowess. He used to take a sheik's daughter as wife for a night, divorce her next...
...Wander. In Charleston, W. Va., arrested for petty larceny when police found her carrying a suitcase stuffed with four sheets, four pillow cases and two towels belonging to the DuPont Hotel shortly after she checked out, Nora May Miller burbled: "Why, I wonder how all that got there...