Still, if "Ball of Fire" is simpler, it does have a lot of fun with the conceit that brings the scholar and the shimmier together: Cooper's character is collecting American slang, and Stanwyck's is a fount of it.
When it was released here, Anthony Lane wrote that "we feel the gathering shadow of the characters' plight, and the darkness is finely leavened by the presence of Michael Lonsdale, who plays Brother Luc, the doctor to the community and the fount of its tolerant humor".
So close was he to this fount of power that it was sometimes possible to read the words on their briefs.
That delusion makes him the fount of violence, and it is why President Reagan's stand that persuasion and common sense alone will turn Mr. Botha around is a dangerous fallacy.
As well as teaching us how to put up a fence, Steve was also a fount of knowledge when it came to local flora and fauna, catching and identifying, for example, a local butterfly called a fritillary.
If, as some experts say, requiring Internet providers to be able to unscramble encrypted messages or intercept any transmitted communication also calls for them to function like centralized carriers, the shift will reverse what made the Internet — and made it a fount of economic growth.
Fount-de-Gaume it is called.
Mr. Cohen, 43, grew up in Midwood in Brooklyn, frequenting Chodosh's corner store and soda fountain (long closed, it was a fount of egg creams and memories that now has its own Facebook page.
As for the Internet, with its grand vision as a fount of information, for America Online subscribers it turns out to be mainly an engine of marketing.
