Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
John Simon
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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.
Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile.
The only real talent Miss Day possesses is that of being absolutely sanitary: her personality untouched by human emotions, her brow unclouded by human thought, her form unsmudged by the slightest form of femininity.
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