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...firing five then counter-attacked. Crane countered that "This talk has gone on over the years . . . you can't win in this business." Saying that he did not intend to belabor the point, but felt that "a few things should be straightened out," he defended his friendship with Wasserman as a "purely personal attachment" which predated his entrance into Cambridge politics. Crane recalled how his father--a Cambridge patrolman--had carried the Wasserman's wine (during prohibition) when the Wasserman family moved to a new home...
...need to belabor this. We all know how TV operates in the public scene with gunplay and the kind of spectacular violence that appears to the American public. To deal with this problem, I suppose you can only get into a sermon how how to get ourselves away from violence as our daily fare in literature and picture all across our land--enough, I am sure, to horrify most of the totalitarians who come here and regard us as a bloodthirsty crowd...
...weapons of parliamentary debate throughout the world vary considerably. Britons belabor one another with icy scorn, Greeks bang their desk tops, and Italians hurl inkwells. The U.S. House of Representatives has witnessed its share of fist fights and even, in the 19th century, quick-draw confrontations with cocked pistols on the floor. Black magic has its place in the legislative assemblies of modern Africa. Last week in South Korea, a new, but old, weapon was added to the armory...
Victim spends most of its time playing with props, mainly to belabor the notion of space-age IBM barrenness. It wields them clumsily, perhaps because it can't decide whether to have fun with them, as James Bond does, or to use them with unnerving and inscrutable dead-pan, as Godard does in Alphaville...
...Roar of the Greasepaint-the Smell of the Crowd brings back Anthony Newley, the versatile book-song-mime-and-dance man of Stop the World, to belabor his favorite subject -what a raw deal the Little Man gets in this worst of all possible worlds. This time, Newley's ubiquitous underdog is called Cocky instead of Littlechap, though the aptest name for him would be Poppycocky...