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...finding on the street a big bundle of unmarked small bills which he could bury without the knowledge of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As he entered item 6, added items 2 and 3, and fumbled distractedly with old dentist's and gasoline bills, he sometimes stopped to stare for long intervals at the ceiling-as if he expected to see a little loudspeaker push through the plaster and hear President Truman's voice saying softly: "Oh, pshaw, Jim, we've decided to call the tax off this year...
...halts. In The Lady's Not for Burning, with its medieval echoes and broomstick leaps of witchcraft and romance, Fry could be simultaneously prankster and poet, could spoof the very verse he spouted. But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers...
...Avoid silence, especially at dinners. "On sitting down, Mr. Bull should without delay engage one of his two neighbors in conversation ... Be careful not to fall into a vacant stare...
...front of the white limestone building at No. 1901 Constitution Avenue, in Washington, stands a semicylindrical mirror. Guards sitting at ease inside the door can stare at its coldly gleaming curve and watch the whole face of the building without leaving cover. Along the building's window ledges run beams of infra-red light, each hitched to an alarm system. The windows themselves are intricately wired, and hidden wires thread through walls and partitions. No visitor is admitted to this stronghold except for a very good reason, and once a visitor is inside, he is watched and escorted continuously...
...acting, or speech-making, in Q-V is in keeping with the Guestian level of the dialogue. Robert Taylor, as the Latin hero, runs the emotional gamut, with his accustomed impassive Cherokee stare. Deborah Kerr, the titian-haired heroine, brings to her role the solemn uncomprehending dogmatism of a Radcliffe freshman discussing the subjects in question--sex and religion. But the prize ham of the evening goes to Peter Ustinov, who makes such a hash out of Nero that you wind up feeling sorry...