Word: bedspreads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder, Cunningham jets off for Europe with a "hard contract" to eliminate three top men who were themselves organization assassins. He manages well enough until he meets an attractive divorcee called Sheila (Lee Remick). Before anyone can say Philosophy in the Bedroom, Cunningham and Sheila are under the same bedspread, where they spend most of their time discussing doom, guilt, predestination, war, violence, murder and the population explosion...
...There's nothing particularly "bad" or annoying about being an anal compulsive; you, as one, just demand tidiness. You can be typing in your room and suddenly become aware that you are tremendously irritated by something about the room. You're ill-at-ease until you spot the bedspread. After you make the bed and smooth it flat, writing is much more relaxed. You also, it seems, really like to excrete in both the two natural human ways; this, I think, is the origin of the term...
...opening night audience, which included such motley elements as a girl dressed in a satin bedspread designed to look a mini-skirt, and another who kept explaining to her boy friend that South Orange, N.J., was a suburban area and not part of a city, enjoyed the show. The success of Pym and his cast in making this fable of Grania more than just a fable suggests that you will...
...girl in a green velvet evening gown, and two non-descripts met in front of Mem Church at around seven Friday morning, dropped down on a bedspread, lighted candles, and waited. At that point the only other people visible were a policeman strolling near Emerson and a couple of janitors shooting the breeze next to Sever...
Even in these publishing days when anything go-goes, it is not often that a character from a novel can show up in a photograph on the front of the jacket all splayed out upside down on an opulently embroidered bedspread, wearing one slipper, two fancy garters, and what used to be called a ball gown. Night Games, however, was made as a film before it could be read as a novel, so the movie, starring Ingrid Thulin, provided the dust-jacket come-on. The rest of the come-on is Mai Zetterling, a talented and glamorous 41-year...