Word: mittell
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...vanishes into a part, never to be seen again. Like Peter Sellers, he has ample physical credentials for a cab driver but rather odd ones for a star. His blunt, anonymous face was born to grouse behind a steering wheel. His voice - often hidden behind a Puerto Rican or Mittel-European accent - is a grainy urban product, like soot. His hair is rapidly disappearing; his walk is a series of slumps...
With a wham and a bam, a sock and a pow, Director Edwards' accumulation of cliches explodes around the world, pausing for Curtis to demonstrate his torso and his skill with the epee, and for Lemmon to do a tedious bit as a faggish Mittel-European prince. No pastiche of the old masters would be complete without a pie fight. This one is the Ben-Hur of pie fights-it splatters more than 2,000 real cream pies of assorted flavors, and took five days to shoot. The scene even has a plot: Will Tony Curtis...
...Berlin's Reichseisenbahnhofs-vorstandsamt (Station Master's Office). Across from him, icy, stone-faced officials jotted down the long list of damages inticed by his three small charges. Robert, Leon and Tzara. during the train journey from France ("1 Porcelain Washbasin with Lid, property of the Mittel-Europaeische Schlafwagen Gesellschaft. 1 Enamelled Notice-Plate marked VERBOTEN, property of the Preusfische Staats-Eisenbahm," etc.). Julius begged the little monsters: "Now if you will only be good a little longer, you'll be in your own nice beds with a glass of delicious hot milk." And grabbing Robert...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittel-holzer...
...Harvard Club, current league leaders, is led by Don Cornish, ranking state player and captain of the Crimson in 1933, and by Dave Mittel, who also is goalie coach of the current varsity hockey team. The Union Boat Club has so many champions and ex-champions that it enters three "A" teams in the league...