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...text: "... (the curtains in the room) ... were touched by the carbon light of the street lamp, they were as white as sugar. The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth." These scenes were meant to be inserted in the story's sequence a la Faulkner, but Agee died before he did it and the editors have wisely chosen to print them as prologues to the book's sections rather than insert them without...
...hidden shamelessness and seduction . . . Although creators of impudent fashions are skillful in contrabanding perversion by mixing it with esthetic elements which are honest in themselves, human sensuality is unfortunately even cleverer in discovering it and in being readily fascinated by it." And even though the cut be modest, the cloth "may be guilty of excessive luxury, which is an offense to the spirit of those who labor and toil...
...sent it after the son's favorite niece. The child's mother watched in horror as the thing ran off with her baby in its mouth. All that was found of the child later was a few pieces of skull, her toes, kidneys and some scraps of cloth. The Tanganyika court found both women and Lion Trainer Muhandi guilty of murder. The sorcerer appealed on the ground that he had not even seen his lion for three months before the murder...
...inside of the eyelid with pincers, pulled it out slightly, and clamped it to the skin near the roots of the lashes at the edge of the lid. Then, with hair-thin nylon thread, he stitched the muscle down. The eyelid was rolled back, covered with a cold cloth as the surgeon went to work on the other eye. Total operating time: five minutes...
...festival, Cordier was approached by a French-speaking intermediary who gave him the paintings and volunteered the information that the painter was the 27-year-old son of a Soviet functionary, a resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that he had seen any Western examples at close hand...