Word: boudoir
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...really operates during the witching hours. From 11:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. five days a week (and until 7:30 a.m. the sixth), he is the Manhattan-based disk jockey of CBS's Music 'til Dawn, sponsored by American. Hall's silky phrasing and boudoir baritone earn him $40,500 a year, are emulated (on producer's orders) by the eight other Music 'til Dawn deejays...
Through its nine strategically placed stations, the show covers the U.S. during the sleeping hours like-well-a blanket. Last year 20 million Americans tuned in, many of them every night. Besides having Boudoir Bob, the show's Hallmark is that it plays classics and pop standards that appeal to affluent, educated audiences more than do the big-beat or hot-line interviews on competing stations. A market survey showed that 60% of the listeners were late-working students, technicians, professional men and executives-just the kind of people who most use airlines...
...fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford has pointed out, a lady's bedchamber still served as a reception room for her guests; only gradually did it become a retreat (boudoir is derived from the French bonder, to sulk). Privacy became valued as individualism and the ego became valued. In earlier times, retreating into solitude was a religious act; now privacy became a devotion in the new secular religion of the self...
...scientific genius who may or may not have been kidnaped by a top-secret U.S. security agency or by a sinister organization linked to "the international black market in brains." As proof of the brain drain, the movie offers more plot. Rock is a society psychologist and boudoir gallant who is afflicted with an obsessional neurosis against long engagements. When he is not carting diamond rings in and out of Tiffany's, he climbs into taxis, trucks and planes and travels, blindfolded, on house calls to a decaying mansion where Claudia's brother displays symptoms of severe mental...
...enough to decode a message in hieroglyphics. Though Peck looks comfortable enough in the library, he resembles a stand-in for Gary Grant when he seeks refuge in Sophia's shower, fidgeting while the lady purrs: "Call me Yasmin-at least while you're in my bathroom." Boudoir comedy is not Peck's game, and he shows better form trying to explain to an enemy that there is nothing unusual about a folded slip of paper mysteriously afloat in his soup. Sophia, as the secret agent disguised in a $150,000 collection by Dior, fills a decorative...