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...Wyler's first TV venture, The Letter also may well be his last. Though an "exciting one-shot experiment," he found himself "out of control" in the medium. "I don't want to be in the lap of the gods; I want the gods to be in my lap." Wyler also observes of TV: "One night, and it's gone. On the other hand, a movie is always there. It goes all over the world, and people see it when they feel like...
...father, has been looking at Presidents for years. As a wide-eyed infant he watched Harry Truman's triumphal return to Washington after his 1948 election victory, and got so excited he dropped a toy from the balcony of the Senate Office Building almost into Truman's lap. But last week was the first time he ever talked to a President...
Mohammed told Khadija, his wife, of his vision of God and asked, "Do you believe it was a good or an evil spirit that revealed itself to me?" Whereupon his practical wife put the matter to an infallible test. She invited Mohammed to sit upon her lap. And when he had sat down, she asked, "Do you still behold the vision?" And when he replied that he did she began seductively to disrobe herself. And then she asked him once more, "Do you still see the vision?" "I can no longer see it. The vision has fled in bashfulness...
...memorable description of Mrs. Sidney Webb and her husband, both Shaw's fellow Fabians: "Her embraces sometimes seemed more like assaults than endearments. [Sidney] would sit in his chair, with a statistical abstract in one hand and a White Paper in the other, while she balanced on his lap like an entranced houri...
...would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady's jealous lap dog and busy blackamoor...