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Aided by "king-size" washcloths, spinach diets, "pedicure tools" and "Queen Bee Cream," she reduces the large, wholesome hips to mere skin and bone, prunes away the buxom midriff, buttresses the sags and fills the open pores. What's left is vigorously sprayed from head to toe with enchanting "fragrances" and left to its own devices, e.g., "If you have an old coffee grinder, fill it with ivy." Only the most hardened men ("see also husbands") could get through this book without "hands, shaking from nervousness...
What O'Keeffe wanted to do included huge bee's-eye views of blossoms, asphalt cityscapes, white skulls and pelves set against hard blue Southwestern skies, and -lately-such stark, sun-filled abstractions as From the Plains. Under the sheltering cape of Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married, O'Keeffe developed a diamond-hard pride and a head-on style. Both helped her become one of the strongest, though not deepest, individualists in American painting...
...Cigarette Problem. The poverty with which the book deals is more comic than tragic. Hero Gordon Comstock is bone-poor, not because he is genuinely down-and-out, but because a pinkish bee in his bonnet tells him that it is nobler to half-starve than surrender to what he calls "the money-code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman...
...Captain (the church's stand against remarriage for divorced persons was a primary reason). Newspapers attacked the Archbishop of Canterbury: TIME TO RESIGN, headlined the Sunday Express. A RISING TIDE OF ANGER, echoed the Daily Mirror. Orators and public-house lawyers dusted off a fine old 28-letter spelling-bee stand-by which for some years had ranked as a public issue above vegetarianism but considerably below prevention of cruelty to animals. The word: antidisestablishmentarianism...
...Queen Bee (Columbia) creaks along like a slow train through Arkansas. The huffing-puffing locomotive is Joan Crawford, a siren from Chicago, and what she does to the proud sons and daughters of the Old South is a caution. Pathetic Fay Wray loses her mind when she loses her man to Joan. The luckless man (Barry Sullivan) retires to his room in the mansion house to nurse his bottle and his grudge. His wide-eyed sister, Betsy Palmer, goes out to the stable and hangs herself. Finally. John Ireland, after quivering with rage and lust for 95 minutes, brings things...