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Joel Martin's Jean is less impressive. Before the seduction, Jean should alternate rapidly between the poses of a Don Juan and of Joseph before Potiphar's wife; Martin's sometimes rat-a-tat monotone glosses over the subtle intonations suggested by the lines. He improves in the second half, as he finds his newly acquired mastery over Julie more agreeable to the limited feeling in his voice...
...Million Words a Year. The years of peace were never Churchill's happiest. He went back to the Tory Party. ''Anybody can rat," he explained with a grin, "but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat." In 1924 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post for whose decimal definitives ("those damn little dots") he was not well suited. His first budget was the first link in the deflationary chain that led to a general strike, a nationwide depression, and the fall of the second Baldwin government...
...dreary benefice in Dublin, the deanship of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The shock permanently damaged his mind. All his nightmares of rejection recurred: he suffered fugues of persecution in which delusory daggers and imaginary nooses pursued him. "I am left to die," he wailed, "like a poisoned rat in a hole...
With the first month of the season gone, the usual rat race is developing in Eastern hockey. But this year there's a difference--the caliber of hockey being played in the East is far higher than ever before...
...total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely a diligent studier. A tooler at the University...