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...slab of the proscenium arch inscribed VERDI. Rise Stevens has al ready filched the brass numeral 11 from the door of her old dressing room. Regine Crespin would like the toilet seat from No. 10; she plans to install it in her own bathroom...
...than it was on the American frontier, but it has shed its inhibitions in full public view. Sex is no longer a taboo topic; it is, in fact, one of the commonest. Humor has not only been firmly entrenched in the bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which playboyesque exaggeration has been substituted for wit. Contemporary audiences...
...revels in the title "the Aperitif King of France." The son of a Marseille wine merchant, Ricard once had notions of being an artist; his practical father insisted, however, that he learn to earn a living first. Ricard turned from palette to pastis making, took over the family bathroom as his laboratory and distillery, added licorice to the standard pastis recipe to improve (or maybe to kill) the usual flavor. Perhaps an even better salesman than distiller, he drummed up a thriving trade for his bathroom booze among bistro owners at a safe distance from his home in Marseille: that...
Everywhere she sees men exploiting women by insinuating that to be "womanly" they must fit certain norms. Freud did it, she says, and so do the businessmen and advertising agencies who sell kitchen appliances, jonny mops, and bathroom fixtures...
...continually outreported her rival, spoon-fed the fans endlessly with the trivia that thrills. Through Hedda, the readers learned that Clark Gable had not a tooth in his head, that Joan Crawford's compulsive cleanliness caused her to drop to her hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor during a visit to SAC headquarters. The fans also got a sizable helping of bloopers. "For more than 2,000 years," Hedda once intoned reverently, "Jews and Christians all over the world have tried to follow in the footsteps of our Saviour...