Word: amber
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Director Otto (Forever Amber) Preminger was barking commands. He started each scene with "Los!" and ended them abruptly with "Noch einmal"-or less frequently, "Sehr...
...contrast to the yearly hue and cry of previous times, only three cases have been publicly tried since the law went into effect. In the case of Forever Amber, the courts decided in 1948 it was hardly obscene, but rather "sporific." It was sold. In 1950 James M. Cains Serenade and Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre were tried. Judging the books as total works of art, the courts decided the former was not obscene, but the latter was, and should not be sold...
Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor, who was touring Spain when her latest book, The Lovers, was published, announced in Manhattan that she was hard at work on an American historical novel, and would leave the country as soon as it is finished. "Not for good," she explained. "I just take a long vacation around the time another of my books comes out so I can't possibly read the reviews...
...abouitous pearls, which are replacing the thoughtlessly-tied scarf at the neck of a sweater, blouse or shirt. These are often obviously fake pearls, many ropes of them, of a phenomenal size. They can be iridiscent, or big knobby baroque pearls. They may be interlarded with equally fraudulent amber and gold. Anyway, pearls all over the place...
...writer can quite reproduce the "feel" of a characteristic line by Kathleen Winsor: "They stood together, his legs widespread"; "He swept the hair off her neck and put his mouth there"; "He smelt like weeds rotted in water." Even longer stretches of Winsor prose have that touch of pure Amber. "She had been surprised at the discovery of an eager sensual appetite within herself. It had been in hiding, apparently, for most of her life . . . and then one day it had appeared." "It was one of the few times he had met a woman who did not instantly flare...