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...great-great-grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...
...home with a handsome set of artworks, including 15 to 20 items from Rocky's personal collection. For the master bedroom they have donated the famous $35,000 "cage" bed designed by Surrealist Max Ernst, which will remain after the family leaves. It has a seven-foot mink coverlet, trap doors for lamps, telephones and stereo controls, as well as accompanying sun and moon medallions at the head and foot, and a lithograph of Ernst's painting The Great Ignoramus. The Rockefellers have also contributed a dozen pieces of furniture, including Korean and Japanese chests, which will remain...
...bedspread to someone who never sent it in the first place." Eventually a retired Lewiston policeman, A.J. (Tony) Petropulos, 89, said that he, for one, had given Mr. Agnew a bedspread and was surprised not to have received an acknowledgment. Mr. Agnew can rest easy under Mr. Petropulos' coverlet-he is a loyal Republican...
CHABROL'S subdued descriptions of situations work most strongly in the home. When the wife lies back on her bed she is surrounded by the deep blues of coverlet and dressing-sreen, which Chabrol had avoided showing in an earlier bedroom scene. We hardly need hear her quiet sobs to feel the sorrow into which she has fallen. Chabrol tells us visually, and tells us emotionally more than intelectually. His realistic avoidance of significant dialogue throws the job of character delineation onto acting, set design, and camerawork. Chabrol's mastery of all three is complete...
...party. And Miss Waroff's blocking did nothing to vary the continual re-introduction of a familiar joke. In a scene between Myrrhine, who is upholding chastity regulations, and Kinesias, her husband, the lady breaks off caresses and runs away for little extras--a bed, a coverlet, a pillow, perfume--that she insists they have before lying down. Each new errand should bring a laugh--except that Carla Barringer (Myrrhine) exits the same way each time...