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Dust off an old-timey dunce cap for TIME'S editors whose progressive education evidently did not include the fact that nouns are declined, verbs conjugated and adjectives compared: TIME (Aug. 28), "a favorite Wall Street conjugation: 'dull, duller, Dulles...
...exception to the rule that books about movies are even duller than movies about books is A Pictorial History of the Movies (Simon & Schuster; $3.95). Its 700-odd movie stills have been assembled by Bryant Hale and Marcelene Peterson, and more conspicuously credited to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor. His touch is evident in the captions, which outline the history of U.S. films from the scandalous The Widow Jones of 1896 to Mrs. Miniver. By turns touching, noble, hilarious, incredible, the pictures in this book have the endearing dignity and fascination of a gigantic family album. Reproduced on this page, reading...
...business and one of Hollywood's more sinister personifications of Evil (Man Hunt, The Son of Monte Cristo). As Evil, Sanders' greatest asset has been a suggestion of cold intelligence and a nasty sneer. Hounding Evil, as The Saint and as The Falcon, has been duller work...
...subtlest and most primal of continents when she was four, to a farm that was painfully hacked out of the dense Kenya forests near Nairobi. Her principal childhood companions were her hard, taciturn, horse-breeding father, some half-naked Negro huntsmen and a ferocious bulldog hybrid named Duller, who somehow survived abduction (from the foot of little Miss Markham's bed) by a leopard, which...
...most fascinating aspects of nature is its variations from the norm. If animals and human beings always acted and reacted according to known formulae, there would be little interest in either, writers would have nothing to write about, and I think the world would be considerably duller...