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Formerly, Costello had a female antagonist worthy of sparring; "Two Little Hitlers" defined relationships as an unending series of one-upmanships and clashes, a dance of death with each power in turn vowing to return. Here, his sometime partner, presumably aging Playboy centerfold and intercontinental pleasure-kitten Bebe Buell, is merely a "B Movie," "a sob-soap story" devoid of all but carnal interest; this is not two Hitlers, but Hitler and Mussolini. The song climaxes as Elvis taunts her for her shallowness: "You can't feel, you can't feel," his voice echoing in her vacuity, while Bruce Thomas...

Author: By D. BRUCE Edelstein, | Title: Abyss and Costello | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...cocktail waitress. A hunched-over waitress Janie took me under her wing and called me "Baby." I felt the name fit snugly. I didn't know they used "Baby" just like "Honey" and "Sunshine" for any girl, just as they used "Tiger" for the tough girls and "Kitten" for the playful and easily tamed. Janie set me loose soon, and I began to learn the drinks slowly--Tom Collins, Singapore Sling, and Hurricane. The beer foamed up in the glasses. When I wasn't serving I stood by the big cast-iron door hustling people in next to big Bill...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: New Orleans Nocturne | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

Pilobolus is a word so fine and fat as it rolls off the tongue that, like a kitten or a May morning, it needs no meaning, but in fact it has two. It is the name of a light-sensitive fungus that grows on horse dung-"a rather bawdy little fungus," according to Jonathan Wolken, who met the word and the fungus while studying biology at Dartmouth a few years ago. Wolken also studied modern dance, in an unserious way, in the class of a young teacher named Alison Chase. When he and Classmate Moses Pendleton found, to their total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Fungus, Fantasy and Fun | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...very depressed." She is convinced of her husband's guilt-"I was looking right at him, talking to him, as he was dragging me back into the house"-and she remembers that he used to beat her and Dee. Once, she recalls, he killed Dee's kitten by smashing it against the kitchen floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Do You Want Next? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...takes her, growls and all, to his mansion in Colorado. She outwits him, however, dumps him into his swimming pool, and runs away?a long, long way to California. She climbs up mountains and falls down mountains, crosses deserts, rivers and seemingly impenetrable barriers, and rescues a kitten from a flaming inferno. Does she make it back to California and her family? Well, you'll just have to see the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lassie's Back | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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