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...Maldives sound like something that belongs in a salad. Actually, they are an autonomous British protectorate in the middle of the Indian Ocean, consisting of some 2,000 palm-shaded coral islands and reefs, 215 of them inhabited, and they are not quite real. Auld Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most...
...Belle (Coral Browne) demands that he come back to her, and gets so importunate he gives her a sedative. Absentmindedly, without really meaning to, he gives her much too much. She dies, a victim of what might be called a Freudian sleep. The audience is left with the impression that Belle was practically begging to be murdered, and that Dr. Crippen, as usual, was just too weak...
...Okinawa beach, D-day-plus-ten, the enemy launched a surprise attack, and I made a quick run with others to a nearby cave on the shore. In my haste I cut my hand on a sharp piece of coral rock. It was a Negro soldier who took a bandage from his own first-aid kit to bind my hand and stem the blood...
Whether Lady Bird will set new fashions for U.S. women remains a question. She is a perfect size ten (5 ft. 4 in., 114 Ibs.), wears various shades of orange, yellow, coral and melon because Lyndon likes bright hues. When she appears in something more subdued, he is apt to growl, "Don't wear those old 'muley' colors...
...girl, Mora, whose dark eyes distill the rapture of the depths. "I am a mermaid," she tells him-perhaps referring to her job, which involves slipping into a scaly fishtail and then into a tank at a boardwalk sideshow. But Mora is unfathomably fey. She collects starfish and coral. Gulls fly into her arms. She is tormented by a mysterious Woman in Black who appears with jet veils murmuring about her like sea things...