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Watching the Marx Brothers presents some problems. If you laugh at the slapstick, you miss the wisecracks; and if you go to the men's room, chances are that you will never regain the thread of the plot. The obvious and only solution is to see each movie at least three times. The last time you'll laugh at the slapstick routines before they occur, thus enabling you to catch most of Groucho's gags...
...Charles Dickens' alternate periods of elation and depression were blended with sadomasochism, the marks of which run "like a scarlet thread through all his writings" (especially in the unbridled violence of A Tale of Two Cities...
Remember Gertrude. At 63, Karfiol can look back on a career that has run like a single thread through the crazy-quilt pattern of modern art. The son of a Brooklyn manufacturer, he was one of the first U.S. painters to go to Paris. "They were just tearing down the exposition buildings of 1900," he says. "There were no automobiles then and you could buy a Chateaubriand for 30 centimes. I remember Leo and Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse, Alfy Maurer, Weber, Pascin, and John Marin, too. I used to think Marin was an Italian model: he never said a word...
Author Goudge's aim, through all this, is to show that everything is a "carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain [lays] the foundation for a woof thread of joy"-which is a fair example of how the sonorous Victorian style sounds in Miss Goudge's version. However it sounds, Miss Goudge's simple optimism, her invariable happy endings and her soufflé of fairies and folklore always pull her through. Gentian Hill should do it again...
...diplomat with a lawyer's incisive mind, Jessup was picked as the ideal man to thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...