Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Notorious Landlady. Jack Lemmon makes antic hay in this playful mystery-comedy with a London setting, and in one bathtub sequence, Kim Novak proves to be an accomplished nude...
...best, Author Jack is as droll as the early Evelyn Waugh he so obviously admires. The book has some fine set pieces of English comic writing: e.g., Bandy's defeat at the hands of an antique bathtub armed with such fixtures as "Douche, Spray, Wave, Plunge, Hot, Cold, Shower, Fountain, Plug, Waterfall and Sprinkler." But Author Jack does more than play it for laughs. Men die on barbed wire and a hand sticks out of the water in the bottom of a shell hole. ("It seemed to be waving at us cheerfully. Rollo shook hands with it.") This mingling...
...Academy Award. Mimieux mimes with subtlety and restraint; she simply behaves like any other well-developed, not-very-bright girl in her late teens, except for an ever-so-slight blankness in the eyes. When the spectator is suddenly shown this flawed creature splashing and giggling in the bathtub with a cute little plastic duck, a shudder goes through him-a woman's body without a woman in it is an eerie and disturbing thing...
MARTYN GREEN'S TREASURY OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN (717 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $ 15). A boon to bathtub bassos of willing voice and weak memory: the complete librettos, with piano arrangements, of eleven of the best G & S operettas. With charming illustrations by Gilbert and annoying sketches by a modern artist, Lucille Corcos...
...scrubbing the boat bottom using diving gear. Manufactured by Boatbath, Inc. and made of polyvinyl chloride, Boatbath comes in sizes ranging from 24 ft. up to 40 ft., is priced from $150 to $295. The boat is floated into the Boatbath (which, in turn, floats like a huge bathtub, with its edge at the water's surface). The open end of the Boatbath is pulled closed; pellets of calcium hypochloride (swimming-pool chlorine) are dropped in. Thus the boat is floating in a bath of chlorinated water, which inhibits the growth of both barnacles and grass. A dose...