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...puffed upon his underslung pipe. "When I see a man shuffling a tarot deck, certain conclusions become manifest - the first of which is that you are wasting your time with occult twaddle...
...agents had overbooked the cruise, and tour officials herded all the waiting passengers on board, hoping somehow to accommodate them. But there were 150 more passengers than available cabins. Some vacationers had to bed down in unpainted rooms the size of closets. The less fortunate curled up on the deck next to their luggage...
Three broke vaudevillians decide to become tower builders in Babel. George (John Lithgow), May (Deborah May) and Jerry (Treat Williams) open an elocution school in Hollywood to prep silent stars for the talkies. Jerry riffles through people like a deck of cards, May has the patience of Florence Nightingale, and George is purer than the infancy of truth and madder than his true love (Julia Duffy). Through simple unpollutable honesty, George becomes chief of staff to a manic-depressive studio mogul, Herman Glogauer. George S. Irving plays this role as if he were a Yiddish Mussolini...
...hobbyists deck themselves out in historically accurate garb and gear, right down to pewter buttons. Otto de Pierne, a chemical researcher from East Norwalk, Conn., spent $7,000 outfitting himself as a surgeon, even collecting the original bottles for 118 drugs carried by 18th century battlefield medics, as well as all the drugs-except opium-which he had to simulate. At Monmouth, he put on his 18th century glasses but apologized for wearing modern shoes. He also brought along his colonial desk, with quill pen and linen paper...
...departure approaches, 33 crew members on deck and below are beginning their duties. The surprisingly clean engine room, below and aft, is bigger than the devil's furnace in a fevered imagination. Ship's engineers are checking giant boilers and huge cooling systems that support the 23,500-h.p. turning of a 64-ton propeller. In the galley, blonde, green-eyed Karen Honold, 20, an assistant cook who looks like a movie starlet and makes $906 a month (not counting overtime), is baking a chocolate cake. On the bridge, Captain DeTemple is stalking about in conventional irritation...