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...Christmas day cars will laugh with their jelly mufflers,'" he reads aloud. "I love 'jelly mufflers,' " he laughs...
...further that Ali MacGraw promises to become the closest thing to a movie star of the '40s. She calls her lover/husband "Preppie" about 900 times too often; she sometimes seems case-hardened enough to scratch a diamond. But she is genuinely touching when she wishes aloud that her name was Wendy Wasp. And she is in a part as actor-proof as Camille. When a Radcliffe girl chooses to die onscreen, the Academy Awards can be heard softly rustling like Kleenexes in the background...
...work of art and a thing of enduring charm and usefulness. Stuart Little (1945) still reigns pretty much supreme in the small-furry-animal-in-spats market. Charlotte's Web (1952), which has just been released again on Pathways of Sound records with White himself reading aloud, is a masterpiece about love and death in a New England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will and a humane spider touching and unforgettable. Trumpet somewhat less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with...
While waiting for the 7:45 p.m. television news, he played a game of solitaire in the living room, then stood up to get the TV programming guide. Suddenly grimacing, he clutched his side. "What is the matter with me?" he cried aloud. Slumping on the couch, he whispered: "Yvonne, I hurt on my right side. Call a doctor." Madame de Gaulle ordered the servant to telephone for both a doctor and a priest. Abbe Claude Jaugey, the De Gaulles' family priest, found the general in "great pain." While the last sacraments were being administered, De Gaulle sank into...
...rural Vermont's high summer, they gathered in Waitsfield for the "gala summer festival of the Poetry Society of Vermont, a read-aloud of poems written by members." The 43 poets and their guests paid $2.50 each for a cold roast-beef luncheon in a clover field on a 225-acre farm and then filed into the red barn for the readings. Most of the poets were middle-aged or more, and on the whole they celebrated a touching and suspended pastoral world savoring of a benign Frost. Some of the more modern verses, though, dealt with hippies...