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Ancient Way. When living alone, the cells are amoebae, and impossible to distinguish from other amoebae which have never learned to cooperate. They crawl slowly at random, grazing on bacteria. When one grows large, it divides in two by the cheerless, asexual mode of multiplication for which amoebae are famous. This is the ancient way of life, before cooperation...
...slept eight hours a day most of the time, had never been lost for a minute. Some of them had felt a bit queasy at first, but later had dined heartily on 22 days' supply of steak, roasts, chicken, lamb curry, lobster salad and pie à la mode. They had all gained weight. In spare moments they had played gin rummy and sipped afternoon tea. Nothing to it, really, indicated Actor Morgan...
...like 1944's 90 millions (exclusive of expenses) an effective cushion against the drubbing of its critics. Of course it is occasionally stirred to mouthing sleepy tongue-in-check rationalizations about how soap operas and "ugly-plugs" are the mandate of the people and an affirmation of the democratic mode; but 90 millions is after all a powerful soporific to even the most outsized social conscience...
...Late George Apley (20th Century-Fox), as a J. P. Marquand novel, was a cleverly genteel variant on the water-drip torture. The story told, in deadpan style, of the gradual destructiveness of a whole mode of life. Like the play which was made from the novel, the movie sacrifices the subtleties of gradualism for dramatic frame and focus...
...propensity for seersucker comes from my environment," Dolan opined yesterday. "I always like to be the first to get started." Like Bean Brummel, another figure distinguished by his mode of attire, Dolan prefers to set styles, not follow them...