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Egil: Just let me finish, okay? You tell everyone it's to conserve energy, but the pipes burst, everything floods, you know? Ruins everything--soaks their stereos, turns their [expletive deleted] pot all soggy, you know? [Laughter] You see what I'm driving...
...this about J.F.K.'s other women is true, it must be good medicine for a President. I have yet to see another one bring so much laughter and so many smiles to the American people-something all of us need and haven't had since J.F.K...
...Victor Hugo, who enjoyed during his lifetime a world wide reputation as the greatest living poet and champion of liberty. The scene in which Adele's Canadian doctor and her landlady first discover the identity of her father is marvelously funny--marvelous because Truffaut doesn't allow this laughter to prejudice our reactions to Adele's passion when it is next presented. The film goes back and forth between the comfortable bourgeois life of Halifax and Adele's tormented soul, but the comparison is never invidious to either side. Truffaut takes neither easy way out--Adele is God's fool...
...laughter...
...Bathing, as we practice it, was unknown. The bowl and pitcher were available, but children were not constantly washed and covered with powder or oil. As for play, some of the sterner, Puritanical parents were suspicious of games-especially so in New England -and indeed of anything that prompted laughter and enjoyment. Nevertheless, children were permitted to play sports, receive toys and in general behave at times rather like our own children do today. In colonial America girls had dolls, crude or simple ones, elaborately dressed and expensive ones. Boys rolled marbles and obtained jackknives as they became older. Both...