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...will make love to you-to relieve the enormous solitude which I carry about with me. I do not like myself, and sometimes I do not like you; but there are moments when our two unfortunate souls seem to cling to the same spar in a gleam of sunshine, free of the other wreckage for a moment." "My pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss, but I cannot saturate and spoil it with fifty thousand . . . Beware. When all the love has gone...
What began as an angry gleam in Harry Cohn's eye now glows from the world's screens. The star's name: Kim Novak...
Living Legend. Picasso comes down - stocky, spry, bronzed as a piece of sculpture. At 75 he is a living legend and he knows it; his dark brown eyes gleam as they sweep the room in a commanding glance. He picks up a black Spanish cape from a pile of clothes, flings it around his shoulders with the lordly grace of a matador, tops it off with a Spanish hat from the pile. " Magnifique , this material," he cries. "It is not only elegant, but it keeps you warm." Next thing the visitor knows, Picasso is romping on the lawn with...
...Dave Beck has increased the assets of the international union by $9,000,000 since he became president." In an analytic mood, an old Beck associate says: "When Dave talks about money, it's like some other guy talking about a beautiful broad -he gets a gleam in his eye. The only pinup in Beck's mind is that good green stuff with numbers...
...Winston cigarette pitch (they "taste good like a cigarette should'') has effectively assassinated the conjunction as. The singing commercial has popularized so many defective rhymes (gleam with sheen, time with fine, gasoline with supreme] that Fadiman fears the blunting of the simple capacity to match the sound of one word with another. Other commercials tell "how to use eyebrow pencil so it looks natural" or implore the viewer to "have a Camel. They really...