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Convention Hall roars to the Democratic war song. Red-eyed delegates sing, shout, weep, laugh, wring hands, whale backs and jostle one another in the aisles. Spotlights swing dizzily around the vast room; the convention floor is a riotous sea of waving signs. BANG! BANG! BANG! Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn thumps endlessly for order: "The sergeant at arms will clear the aisles." Finally, a hush falls. Rayburn smiles for the first time in precisely four years. "Members of the convention!" cries he. "It is my great pleasure to give you the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...movie critics have transformed themselves into a group dispensary of tasteless, colorless and odorless critical treacle, ignored on a wholesale basis by the moviegoer, sampled only by the movie industry itself, which is merely vigilant for any sign of recalcitrant tartness. The New York Film Critics met recently to wring hands over the cases of Zinsser and Gilbert, deplored industry pressure for two hours, and adjourned. "Nothing was done by the critics," wrote New York Post Critic Archer Winsten with some bitterness, "and nothing will be done...
...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy, who can also be seen fishing in cinematically troubled waters in The Old Man and the Sea, is far more at home playing a curly-haired, Curley-like Irish machine pol. The climax conies in a death scene that should wring tears from an Ulsterman...
...voice of oldfashioned, pre-Eisenhower Republicanism. But he grew in the job. A deep-dyed member of the old school that considered tariff protectionism a fundamental GOPrinciple, he became Washington's most improbable convert to freer trade, led this year's winning Administration fight to wring a broadened reciprocal-trade bill out of a reluctant Congress...
...begins a death scene that for temporal duration (18 minutes) and sentimental excruciation has scarcely been equaled since Sonny Boy kicked the bucket in The Singing Fool (1928). It is a masterpiece that should wring tears from an Ulsterman. But as the henchmen file piteously past the deathbed to murmur their last, tearful goodbyes, the serious sort first and the dopey guy last, many moviegoers may wonder where they have seen the heart-wrenching but somehow faintly silly scene before. A few may remember. It occurs, with only minor variations, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven...