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...STRANGERS (Columbia). If Eydie Gorme isn't careful, she's liable to set the world on fire. On this album she lights the torch, contrives not to drench it with tears, and the result is fairly flaming...
Were the emerald drench of ocean...
Like people who live near the mouth of a volcano, the citizens in the hills of Los Angeles County know that there is no end to disaster. Eventually the rainy season will drench the denuded hills with flash floods. Then the mesquite and chaparral will grow back on the hillsides. After that, the humidity will fall again...
...Patrick Kennedy's case, the extra oxygen in his Isolette was not enough. Dr. Drorbaugh called in an imaginative Harvard colleague, Pediatric Surgeon William F. Bernhard, who has pioneered in the use of a hyperbaric (high-pressure) chamber to drench a patient's system with oxygen (TIME, Feb. 15). Developed by the Navy for training submariners and decompressing divers, the 29-ft. by 8-ft. tank has three compartments, can hold as many as seven doctors, nurses and technicians as well as the patient...
...actress of narrow range, but under skillful direction she is an actress of enormous depth. With an authority that beggars the cheap criticism that she is merely playing herself, she can put her hands on her hips, cock her head, turn bargaining eyes toward the camera and drench an audience in the sunshine and sadness, shrugs, shouts, laughter and song of southern Italy. She does so for De Sica in Two Women-hair blowing in her eyes, dressed sexlessly in threadbare clothes, pouting, cursing, writing chapters in the air with her hands. She plays a ferociously protective mother...