Word: boudoired
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...another drawing a wife is lounging on a chaise longue in her boudoir. She has mounted a shotgun on the tops of two chairs, run a cord from the trigger to the door so that whoever opens the door will shoot himself. Says the wife: "It's not locked, Honey...
Addams, whom Publisher Bennett Cerf describes as "the gentlest and the kindliest old schizophrene," and for whose work Boris Karloff (who contributes a foreword) has a "whole-souled admiration," is not preoccupied only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke of the Addams' hand to universal madness. Drawn and Quartered includes his drawings of and that haunting simile of the mind's disintegration: ski tracks divided by a large tree...
Maroon, meanwhile, has Gary-Coopered his way in & out of Clio's boudoir, various gambling halls, and the offices of J. P. Morgan in New York. He runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...
...little more than the legal requirements, thus producing a temporary hexagon rather than the standard eternal triangle. Without the zip of double-entendre dialogue or the oomph of a Lampy "wham" girl, the show is straight drama-a welcome relief from Hollywood's recent obsession with boudoir repartee...
...Melyyn Douglas planned to break down her stand up strike. The ticklish situation gets further complicated when an over-potent South American banker, the father of half his country, makes a loan dependent on Rosalind's pregnancy. Thus doubly inspired. Douglas adds to the lustre of his boudoir savoirefaire by a superb comedy performance which succeeds in making love find a way to the bedroom and getting Rosalind to march upstairs to the tune of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The dialogue is entendre doubled and redoubled with a plot that leaps from...