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...took a jacket from a model and tried it on herself. When it failed to close across madam's own well-developed bust, she said: "See what I mean? Designers keep forgetting that women are females, human beings with legs, bosoms, hips. I am sick of the cardboard silhouette. I am cutting out the frills, the whalebones, the stiff flounces, all that inhuman nonsense...
...played by Charles Boyer, is not the pompous autocrat of Father. He is but a chuckling bystander watching the antics of his clansmen, who are notorious in the community because of their many conquests. There's Uncle Desmond, smoothest operator in Quebec, who collects garters and mounts them on cardboard. He inherited his art from Grandpere, still dapper at 67 years and spryly pursuing his latest widow. What story the film has develops when the adolescent (Bobby Driscoll) imitates the attitude of his uncles and gets in trouble...
Author Griffin's hero is a cardboard character in a contest of more powerful wills; the monks and most of the townspeople are mere symbols of good & evil. Nevertheless-and crude, awkward and febrile as it is-The Devil Rides Outside is kept bowling along by pure writing steam. It is often repetitive and frequently staggers to a stop, but it is saved each time by a fresh burst of vigor and intensity. At novel's end the musicologist returns to the monastery, and there is the promise that he will find God and inner peace. Author Griffin...
...passed out of the dining hall Vag noticed a cardboard box set up near the door. He remembered about the slip he had picked up on the way in, and fished it out of his breast pocket. "Presidential Preference Poll" it said, "please write in the candidate and party you are supporting for the presidency." Vag waited a moment, chewed up the end of a pencil, and then scribbled in, "Darlington Hoopes, Socialist...
...Shaped Blast. The first Bikini A-bomb tests established his reputation for sagacity on a shoestring. Disdaining the elaborate, expensive apparatus that his U.S. colleagues set up to measure the blast, Penney filled 1,000 empty gasoline tins with sea water and sealed them with cardboard flaps. When, as he predicted, the bomb knocked out the official instruments, the amiable Briton studied his crushed cans, measured the lost water, "did a bit of a sum" and came up with the answer. The U.S. offered him four times his $8,000 salary as chief of Britain's armaments research...