Word: beds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect...
Family Honeymoon (Universal-International) devotes itself strenuously to the leering old gag of setting up an obstacle course between the nuptial bed and a pair of ardent newly weds (Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray). Among the obstacles: the Other Woman (Rita Johnson), the rigors of a tour through the Grand Canyon, the constant company of the bride's three small children by a former marriage...
Despite a few mild laughs, the gag stretches thin during the 90 minutes it takes to get the harried honeymooners to bed. Whatever novelty the script suggests in turning a wedding trip into a family excursion is lost in the exhausted atmosphere of marital misunderstanding and reconciliation...
Although only the second and fifth of King Henry's wives* actually went from the bed to the block, English folklore (and the cinema) have stressed the Bluebearded side of his life. But history, with a surer stress on the important, credits Henry with a stroke more momentous than any ever struck by his executioners: he severed the Church in England from the Church of Rome...
...self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used sheets, the nightshirts carefully laid out, can exasperate me to the point of nausea...