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Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortesa, the mainstays of the supporting cast, do an excellent job of keeping up the oriental atmosphere. Greenstreet, a stock character in exotic movies, plays a saloon-keeper who trades with both Japs and Allies, while Cortesa is a halfbreed singer who does just about the...
The songs, studded with lines like "Now that I have found you," all sound the same and all sound banal. Jack Cole's wriggly, exotic dances are all much the same too, and elaborately meaningless, but they are sometimes decidedly clever. The skits and satiric ditties vary enormously. Many...
"When I tried to suggest to my more socially conscious American students that intellectual curiosity was not necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see...
"A little mink thing" is running first again this year, on the list of "what I would like for Christmas." After that come all sorts of jewelry--earrings--preferably exotic drop varieties, or the ceramic carrings sold at the Window Shop.
There was, for instance, an Edam Cheese dish (it's in the book), stuffed with fish and fruit, a Chocolate Pie which comes out in separate layers. Then, there are simple things like a Mountain Soup; exotic dishes like Moghal Rice from India, Avocado Ice Cream from Hawaii, and...