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...novelty of seeing people jump out of the water onto a diving board or running backwards at full throttle wears off-and that's pretty soon. But the film at the Brattle uses visual foolery in the same intelligent way that a good farce uses its rudimentary pot: as a string for its gems of humor. Spice of Life is a series of sketches examining a variety of pests and bores. Logically unconnected, except by the fact that the poorest of them are quite amusing, these little episodes are narrated and acted in by Noel-Noel. Since he also wrote...
...Christmas Boston Invitational Tournament, he was selected most valuable player, and named to the alltourney team last year. Flynn was also elected to the all-star team at the Boston Bean Pot tournament...
...inhabitants did less damage to the building than did the chemistry teacher who preceded them. In the 1830's Dr. John Webster, hiding behind a door while he stretched a pole with a candle at its end toward a kettle, would ignite "a volcano in an iron pot." In 1837 the pot exploded, smoke billowed forth, and his students threw themselves out of the windows...
Last week in Kastoria, a worn woman of 55 cooked a pot of beans-a meal for eleven people-while unemployed men sat silently on crates and battered luggage...
...treeless slopes, each labeled with a white cloth tag, shoes tied onto feet with string to keep them from pulling off in the ankle-deep mud. Each carried a pathetic bundle of possessions-straw bedding, aluminum kitchenware, a canteen or blackened teakettle, and (almost invariably) a rose-patterned chamber pot. Few seemed sad at leaving their cold, wind-whipped islands...