Word: boudoirs
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...second is life as chronicled in the gossip columns, which pretend to take the reader into the star's boudoir and living room. In this world, Ava emerges as a femme only slightly less fatale...
...script is more notable for words than action, and its pretensions to serious drama are undermined by a plot that never quite overcomes its resemblance to boudoir farce. Uriah the Hittite (Kieron Moore), whom David cheats first of his wife and then of his life, may well be the most gullible cuckold in literature; even played straight, the character seems like a fugitive from a Molière comedy...
Seasons for a Countess. A push-button affair designed to carry two people up to the countess' boudoir, the elevator did not give Gugel much elbow room. He fitted it with a continuous mural done in deep perspective, to make the contraption look "as light and airy as possible." For subject matter he took the four seasons. "This is a very commonplace idea," he wrote the palace architect, "but I think you'll find the pictures a bit unusual...
Later, friends admitted to her boudoir found the duchess in bed (her doctor had ordered a complete rest), thoughtfully fingering a bouquet sent her by her gallant judge...
...bizarre picture, at once as strange and as familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate boudoir like a candlelit tomb; women in a pub talking of postwar problems ("Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. / He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you / To get yourself some teeth...