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...wails. "I'm a big fat cow." But she is furious when her husband does not contradict her. She is even madder when he chats at the fence with the girl next door. "You're carrying on with that-bffrllggrhaphut!" The next minute, overwhelmed by bacteriophobia, she starts scrubbing the kitchen floor for the fourth time that day. One morning her husband finds her sweeping the back alley. "Oh, Nick," she snivels with self-pity, "it takes so long to have a baby, you forget what made it seem like a good idea in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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