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...times have changed, and so have hair styles. Curls today are for the birds, and French poodles. Current styles call for sleek, straight hair. It is a look made possible only by the use of rollers, metal or plastic, ranging up to 3 in. in diameter and designed to subdue, not support, the slightest hint of curl. What rollers cost is sleep, and women who cannot get used to a Japanese wooden neck rest have only one choice: set at dusk and sit up till dawn or set by day, rest easy at night...
...Simone wants is to curl up in her plush Paris flat, keeping her children happy and her cupboards full until war's end. When a chance encounter throws Whitman into her lap for safekeeping, Signoret registers magnificent dismay. "I'm not his mother," she objects. Grace à Dieu...
...curiosity with great, amazing leaps that lead him nowhere; in his dance with the Siren, he makes twins of terror and desire. Betrayed by his lust, he struggles home, and in a slow, gentle movement that is a touching confession of sin and folly, he lifts himself into the curl of his father's arms...
Some of the other exercises had names that were closer to the original Sanskrit. "The Fish" is done by lying on your back, with only the head and lower body touching the floor and the back sharply arched. "The Cobra" is a slow curl starting from a face-down, lying position, so that you end by looking at the ceiling. Both are done to stretch the neck and back muscles...
Couelle's abodes are influenced by flora as well as fauna, as, for instance, his staircases. "Like plants-they curl," explains Couelle. "It is a law of nature. Stairs must curl, and they must not be shaped regularly. They must have irregularities so you shift your weight. You can run up and down my staircases all day without tiring...