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...when her husband freaked out in a Messianic frenzy, she remarried a psychoanalyst and was herself analyzed a few times over. And after more married life Isadora Wing has had it with monogamy. Monogamy simply didn't turn out to be the golden dream the American commercials--body soap, bathroom cleanser, baby powder, cars, cigarettes, and coca-cola all with their golden couples--pictured it. And nobody else, not the Victorian novels she grew up on, not Doris Day, not even Peyton Place, led her to picture anything less. So Isadora figures she's been brainwashed...
...DEAD is a scurvy mob melo drama that nevertheless presents sever al new insights into the manners and morals of gangland. We note, for ex ample, that persons affiliated with the Mafia have a certain delicacy when referring to bathroom matters. "Can I use the powder room?" a sultry lady inquires of a beau. A bomber explains his eagerness to escape an impending explosion by gesturing toward the facilities, hopping up and down and muttering "Uhhmm . . . nature call." Further, it seems that the Mafia has taken matters of ecology straight to heart: corpses are deposited all neatly wrapped in plastic...
ADLAI STEVENSON. "He would never understand how you have to get along with people and be equal with them . . . That fellow was too busy making up his mind whether he had to go to the bathroom or not. That fellow didn't know the first thing about campaigning [in 1952], and he didn't learn anything either. He got worse...
...grave pages of Pravda itself. The party newspaper reported that with "party connivance" scores of "marble dachas" had sprouted "like mushrooms" all over Georgia, while shortages persisted in school buildings and housing for the average Soviet factory worker. One dacha had a billiard room and marble floors in the bathroom. Another, built "with the lavishness of the czars," cost 350,000 rubles ($490,000) to construct and another 158,000 rubles ($221,200) to decorate...
...uniforms and scores of decorations have been sent back to England for permanent display, but all his other personal possessions remain where they were. His shirts are still stacked neatly in his bedroom drawers, his suits hang in his dressing room closet. His toilet things are spread in his bathroom. His desk is ready for instant use, with ample supplies of paper clips, pipe cleaners, pens and pencils and different inks. His favorite photographs (23 of the duchess alone) stand on his mantel and bookcases, all exactly as he left them. Every night the duchess comes to his bedroom before...