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...routine is familiar to virtually everyone who has ever checked into a hospital. Almost as soon as the patient slips into a hospital gown, he or she faces the standard diagnostic assault. Aptly known in medical jargon as the admission battery, it includes such procedures as a chest X ray, electrocardiogram, blood-cell count, blood-chemistry analysis, venere al-disease test and urinalysis...
...Tullio's fatal male honor cannot stand, and when a son is born to Giuliana he exposes the baby to cold winter air and allows him to die. Then, after a moody conversation with his mistress, he shoots himself through the heart. Teresa, dressed appropriately in a black gown-though no one was dead when she put it on-walks unsympathetically past his body and away from the camera. She stops motionless in the middle distance, an elegant figure on a path framed by trees, as the credits roll by. It is a beautiful last shot, with a stillness...
Even more compelling for the Chinese, accustomed to a fare of jingoism on television, was the airing of the 1957 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Gina Lollobrigida as the sultry Esmeralda in a low-cut red gown. Also shown on TV was a short film on America provided by the U.S. Government and, most surprising of all, a documentary on Taiwan that contrasted with the routine depiction of the island as a cesspool of oppression and poverty. The film showed the prosperous city of Taipei, well-run private farms and Buddhist monks at worship...
...with a copy of Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's 1956 novel about homosexual love. Said Scott: "He had said I would like it. It is, in fact, a very beautiful story." An hour later, as Scott told it, Thorpe came to his room in a dressing gown and sat down and talked to him about his troubles. Then, Scott said, Thorpe kissed him and "got into bed with me" and began making love. Scott claimed that he did not protest because he thought Thorpe's mother was in the next room and might hear. Scott said...
...this is expensive. Besides the original fee, a family must pay to attire its daughter in her virgin white gown and often outfit her escorts as well. Other expenses include tickets for any guests they wish to bring, and the binding for the previously mentioned photo album. In addition to the official ball, the family may wish to give a private ball of their own. All told, a debut can easily cost over a thousand dollars...