Word: bush
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...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...
Adapted by Isobel Lennart from a 1952 novel by Jon Cleary, the picture serves a slice of life in the "outback"-the vast sheep steppes of the Australian hinterland. The hero (Robert Mitchum) is a sundowner, the Aussie equivalent of a rolling stone, who drifts from bush town to bush town, job to job, while his wife (Deborah Kerr) urges him to save up, buy a farm and settle down. To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed. But as soon as he has some savings, he nicks off and goes broke...
Thanks mostly to Director Fred Zinnemann, the story goes knocking along like a southerly buster through some bloody-awful bush between Nimmitabel and Jindabyne. Mitchum and Kerr sometimes sound like Aussies-come-lately, but on the whole they manage the loose-elbowed looks and snarly charm of the permanent residents. Peter Ustinov, playing an unmarried remittance man who has to beat the girls off with a waddy, makes a comical old dag. But when it comes to stealing scenes, the actors often have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that...
...There is too much of a tendency to see Communists under every bush," he said, "and of course, you know, there are many bushes in Africa...
...tempted to ask: Why is it better to have alumni beating the bush than to have coaches actively recruiting? It seems that abuses to the spirit of the Ivy Group agreement are as easily perpetrated by old grads who always wanted to do or die for Harvard as they are by coaches...