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...their hats set at a jaunty angle. You admire their graceful movement as you would admire any athlete with rhythm and coordination. Several matadors did not even move their feet as the bull charged the cape; they merely pulled the cape aside, arched their bodies, and let the bull brush past. Finally, the matador lines up his sword as he would a billiard cue and goes in for the climax. According to how the crowd reacts to his performance, the matador is allowed to retain one bull's ear, both ears, or both ears and the tail. As he struts...
...messages of his three previous films, Monsieur Verdoux (1947), The Great Dictator (1940) and Modern Times (1936), and goes back to the simple little tramp-meets-girl, loves-girl, loses-girl theme of his famed silent movies. But Chaplin no longer plays the tramp with the cane, battered derby, brush mustache and oversized shoes. In Limelight he is a dapper, though slightly seedy (and in heavy stage make-up rather repulsive) clown in spats and velvet-collared coat. Only a few reminders of the old tramp remain in a couple of music-hall sequences...
When each day's work is done, Paddy Swift lays down his brush to spend the evening talking, drinking, going to frequent movies. Says he: "I like sitting in the dark among people. It gives me the same sort of pleasant sensation that I get from a hot bath." It relieves the tension...
...leaning on the barrier. He turned to one of the boys with the signs. "How much they givin' ya?" "Dunno. They ain't payin' us 'til after." The little boy looked over towards the barber shop. "Any left?" "Dunno. Wyn'cha go look?" The little boy started to brush through the crowd, then stopped and looked at the bigger boy. "You from 'round here?" "Nah," said the bigger boy. "Eighth street." "Why you here?" "I'm carryin' a sign." "Ya figger you'll get paid?" "Better," said the bigger boy, and he held the sign a little higher and faced...
...Richmond, Ike had his first brush with accident. He had just finished talking from a temporary platform in front of the old Capitol when the platform collapsed. Ike fell five feet, went to his knees. Then he stood up unhurt, grinned and brushed himself...