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What's Noble? Journey into the Night is particularly hallucinatory. Two men are taking an overnight train to Paris. One tells the other in a friendly way that he is a cannibal and intends to eat his companion as soon as he falls asleep. Ridiculous, naturally. No, really, the first man is quite serious. He opens a small satchel and brings out a salt shaker and tools for dismembering a body...
When he came to Harvard last December to speak at the law School Forum, he had no guards. We whispered across a short space in the Faculty Club about his new ideas and his trip to Mecca. "I fee like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone eles's control," he said. "I feel what I'm thinking and saying now is for myself." And yet, I sensed about him the loneliness of one who had tried to go beyond his circumstances and had found he could...
...real mover behind it all, declared Thao, was General Tran Thien Khiem, South Viet Nam's ambassador in Washington. But the timing of the revolt evidently came as a surprise to the ambassador, who was sound asleep in his Maryland home at the time. Hurriedly, Khiem cabled Thao pledging "total support." He should have stayed...
Barbara asks Attorney Taylor to help her figure out whether she has been asleep or awake. Of course, nobody could have snoozed through all that screaming, and the mystery is solved in a violent climax that has virtually the whole cast closing in on Barbara with towels, knives, guns and steam hoses. Night Walker's real suspense, and perhaps the bizarre point of the entire show, lies in the tandem casting of Stanwyck and Taylor, in private life one of Hollywood's most celebrated Mr. and Mrs. teams prior to their 1951 divorce. To stage a family reunion...
...soleral variety, covers only the iris and the pupil rather than the whole eye. Researchers are adapting other materials, notably a hydrophilic plastic: invented by two Czech scientists, the new rubbery lens is so flexible it never irritates the eye, and is porous enough to be worn while asleep...