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...promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...
Ohlo: 57 FF, 242SS, 299 AQ, 371 CA, LG 450, NC 582, US 596, YY 3464; Oklahoma: 14528, 2-28346; Pennsylvania: 581B3, HEL8, GC97, 138PP, 0249K, 2509P, E7689; Rhode Island: S1795, 3499, G5415, N8689; South Carolina: D130783; Texas: LM 470, AH 2234, FD 9180; Vermont: EE463; Wyoming: 858327; Virginia: 809940; Washington: S5577U
...magical enough Juliet. She never seems to feel the part-only the importance of it. She never seems in love with Romeo-only with Romeo and Juliet. She recites poetry where she should radiate it; and goes through the role as though following a score marked presto or lento, ff. or pp. It is a thoroughly modest, painstaking performance, but it just never seems to matter...
...Write-ff: a solution...
From now on, proclaimed the Trib, words of more than one syllable ending in "ff" will end simply in "f," e.g., distaf, sherif, tarif, midrif, bailif, mastif, rifraf. (One-syllable words like cuff, scoff and fluff will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina...