Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once said. He has a cat's ability to land on his feet. Twenty-one months ago, only the intervention of the U.S. saved him from being turned out of power by the invading Franco-British-Israeli forces. His proud army, his vaunted Soviet equipment, lay in dismal ruin. Only after measuring the U.S. reaction did the Russians begin to bluster. The U.S. saved his neck, but Nasser credited Moscow, and soon began boasting of the Egyptian "victory" at Port Said, where the British had routed his forces...
Gruesome in spirit, comic in detail, this triangle is doomed to ruin by Joe Morgan's philosophical code. He is stuck with the arid belief that his "values" are valuable simply because he believes in them, while his mad friend does not care what values he upholds; in fact, he has none. Joe talks everyone to death in the interests of honesty, and the spirit of togetherness is symbolized by the fact that husband and lover are made aware that they both use the same brand of contraceptive...
...half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete his ginmill to the ruin of the summer dwellers' dunes. Author Waller neatly wrings a lemon twist of satire from the hectic meeting of the homeowners' protective association. With the aid of a LIFE picture spread and some planted items among Manhattan gossipists, Elise French saves the dunes, her marriage, her babysitter...
...particularly after a half-hour or so of psychiatric disquisition that interrupts the plot and suspends the suspense. Still, Actor Stewart is a fascinating old pro, and in this picture Actress Novak hits a new high in her cinema career. As Director Hitchcock expressed it: "She doesn't ruin the story...
Thank heavens we have dedicated men like Harry S. Truman who will lead us into a depression and worldwide ruin for their own political gain...