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...companies sometimes disappeared without a trace. Even when the dead were found and buried, it sometimes did little to combat the pervasive smell of rotting human flesh. "The shells disinter the bodies, then reinter them," a young French soldier wrote, "chop them to pieces, play with them as a cat plays with a mouse...
...Paris, Sivard went around the corner to buy some salami, was enchanted with the charcuterie where it was sold. "It struck me," he says, "as the sort of memory I would like to take home with me." He sketched the charcuterie with the owner and his wife and their cat and dog, adding some torn posters and wall scribbling. Sivard has been doing things like it ever since...
Tony has had better material, but he has never made more out of less. He skitters through his best scenes like a cat in pattens. He flicks a bad line away as a zillionaire might irritably flick a pearl out of an oyster. And when he does a slow burn you could fry an egg on his deadpan. Cary should approve...
...swinging on a trap bar at the top of the arena. As a child of the circus, Vicki Unus is proud to be La Toria and take her place among them-and among such old B.&B. stars as Harold Alzana, the high wire king, Trevor Bale, the big cat man, the Flying Gibsons and the Hanneford Bareback Riders. But she is proudest of all to be in the same show with F. F. Unus, her father, who has long since outlasted all competition in the art of standing on one finger, but who has just been forced to learn...
...cat may look at a king; so I suppose that one must concede to Mr. John Barton the right to concoct an evening of 35 monarchal snippets from 1000 years of English history (he calls them "an entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England,...men and women like you and me.") Fortunately, the maxim does not require us (you and me, that is to say) to look at Mr. Barton and his fellows as they debase the monarchs to make them palatable to a democratic audience by smirking, giggling, and vulgarly overacting...