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Perhaps what makes this film such engrossing entertainment, like the others of the unique series, is its power to make one live episodes which could not happen; Zachary Scott's Dimitrios is more smooth, and more thoroughly lousey than an international weasel could be. Each character plays his part with a light hearted desperation one can revel in for an hour and a half of a plotless day Escape...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Mask of Dimitrios | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...this cheery note that Perri is introduced to the hard facts a squirrel is up against in the world of Walt Disney. She is mauled by a goshawk, ripped up by a weasel, and almost torn to pieces by a marten-a lean and eager individual with a bright red tongue that lolls out in an unpleasant way. A forest fire burns down her house, and she winds up in the middle of a beaver pond, riding on the back of a bobcat. On top of all this, Perri will probably not get much sympathy from the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Hawley-defeat Hawley. They nearly succeed. A pipe is shot from the mouth of a bird-watching master, the dorm-to-chapel sprint record is broken, and the "discriminatory practices" of the old against the young in the matters of sex and summer are defeated. As the two cronies weasel their way to Yale and through the R.C.A.F., there emerges a portrait of that very special generation, not lost but somehow mislaid between the Depression and World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Way Home | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...weasel" was sent part-way to the ravine from Pinkham Notch to bring Lister down. The other members of the party, who were not identified, returned on foot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineer Suffers Mild Frostbite Case | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...With the weasel-words translated, George F. Kennan's formula for a Stevenson foreign policy [TIME, June 4] reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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