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...Dead Reckoning is a great if unintentional comedy. Most of the humor comes from double meanings and the ensuing snickers from the audience. The snickers become howls when Bogart gives his deadpan comments on ludicrous situations. (After an all-encompassing embrace with Lizabeth Scott he notes, "I hate every inch of her." And he should know...
Another bright spot for Harvard was the unexpected showing of freshman John De Kiewet, who tied for fourth in the high jump with a leap of 6 feet, one inch. De Kiewet, who stands 6 feet, 6 inches tall, came out for the Yardling team only a few weeks...
...Moscow, a 17-inch TV set costs less than a new suit of clothes. The catch: a new suit is priced at 1,600 rubles ($400), some $75 more than...
...Sharaku depicting not another actor but a wrestler: the famed and presumably feared Daidozan ("Great Boy Mountain") Bungoro. Daidozan's career is almost as much a mystery as Sharaku's own. At eight, when Sharaku drew him, the little athlete weighed 180 Ibs. and boasted a 47-inch waistline. Sharaku showed him charging belly-on toward the spectator and squinting in delighted anticipation of the coming collision with his opponent. Daidozan never fulfilled his large promise, for he quit the ring at a mere...
King Lear. For his return to the U.S. stage after nine years abroad, Orson Welles chose a tragedy as theatrically challenging as it is tremendous. His King is every inch a showman. His Lear is often pictorially brilliant. But it is hardly, on Shakespeare's terms, Lear; nor, even on Welles's terms, successful...