“The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis—out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.”
More from Charles Brackett
“Never ask a big man for a small favor.”
“I'm walking here! I'm walking here!”
“I am big! It's the pictures that got small.”
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”