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...other hand, De Sica is unable to accept the fact that his 16-year-old daughter has, since her last fitting, developed a 35-inch bust herself, and is holding furtive assignations with a school chum in the ruins of ancient Rome. "We teach our children how to be children," reflects one of the characters in The Maid. "But has anyone taught us how to be fathers? We have to play it by ear." And that is how they play the whole picture...
...sort of peach-fuzz Bluebeard. Dobie consumes much of his one-track energy in the chase after females, and his main problem remains that of making himself acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie's part of Connecticut. As the gulls fly in from the Sound to rain clams on the roof, the families keep moving out, and turnover...
...depicting a banquet for a dissolute-looking general (which President Eisenhower objected to as "a lampoon"), left the crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust of Benito Mussolini peers balefully across the Roman Forum, got low marks until it was labeled "antifascist...
...fall of 1926, when he let a college boxer test his vaunted toughness by punching him in the belly. Less than ten days later, Harry Houdini, 52, was dead of a ruptured appendix. His grave, in Brooklyn's Machpelah cemetery, writes Gresham, is marked by a marble bust of the great escapist. "It is an elaborate tribute. He designed it himself...
...University of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Russian to his hotel room, and all three were given intravenous injections of water, salt, sugar and vitamins. Said U.S. Track Coach Frank Potts: "When you get American and Russian athletes together, nobody's kidding. Those boys were either going to win or bust a gut. They busted...