Word: fakes
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...Columbia) rates a B-plus for its efforts with a B-picture plot: the old one about the detective who bores from within a big-city racket to get the goods on the mystery man at the top. It is full of sluggings, shootings and characters with fake identities; the mastermind is the last anyone would suspect, and, at a venerably crucial moment in the final reel, the hero's girl falls into the villain's clutches...
...turned to Bendrix for help, it was Bendrix who hired a detective to watch her. But Sarah was beyond the scope of detectives. Starting from her hysterical bargain with God, she had gone on through the loneliness of suffering, through the conviction that she was a "bitch and a fake," to find that she not only believed in God but loved Him-even more than she loved her lover. "I believe there's a God-I believe the whole bag of tricks; there's nothing I don't believe, they could subdivide the Trinity into a dozen...
...mines. And the terms of his story are so studiedly, elaborately mundane that at first the unwary reader is hardly aware of the muffled explosions of the answers. (One of his buried questions : Must a woman who becomes a saint necessarily think of herself as "a bitch and a fake?" Greene's answer...
...today, the 152-year-old school which produced "educated pagan Indians" and Daniel Webster in its youth, is both a fake and a phenomenon among its contemporaries...
...weakness of the passing game hurt the Crimson. Fullbacks John Culver and Tom Ossman did most of the running, and ran well; Ossman was particularly effective on a fake pitchout play with which he gained good yardage during the second half. But the total passing gain was a paltry 21 yards...