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Maybe some of my readers were not fooled by the success-story format of my article. But most probably were. We don't like to see things like legless little boys--they contradict our expectations and desires about the world. So we become willing accomplices in a scheme to cover up the truth. We have great psychological use for someone like Robin Starling who can appear to be normal and who therefore affirms what we would like to believe. We can successfully go on fooling ourselves like this because Robin Starling has a great stake in-making sure that...
...Morris's harp chords and sustained flute convey an ominous mood appropriate for the 16th-century Vienna where "quite athwart goes all decorum." Michael Kahn has added a brief prologue that introduces us to some of the unsavory people in the city--including a blind beggar, a pickpocket, a legless cripple. There is no point in trying to avoid the play's prevailingly rancid taste. Kahn has abridged the text a little, so that the show has a running-time of two and a half hours...
...Viet Nam veterans faced the additional frustration of returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back maimed or crippled. In one scene of Hogarthian savagery not long ago, television audiences watched a legless vet in a bar near Washington's Walter Reed Hospital blearily drinking beer from his prosthetic calf...
...friends who wear store-bought frocks. She can make just about anything, too. There are now patterns for panty hose, lingerie and bathing suits as well as men's suits, shirts and overcoats. Butterick even has Stitch N' Stuff Sew-It-Yourself Furniture patterns for making legless sofas, beds and chairs that are basically overstuffed slipcovers. Patterns are easier to use now, too. Many are two or even one-piece designs that can be zipped up by the most fumble-fingered amateur. Some companies offer package deals-precut material that is ready to sew-and one even computerizes...
...novel will be made into a movie next year. That should surprise no one, since it is seeded with cinematic possibilities, including a chase by a legless beggar on a skateboard. The film ought to be shot in black and white, since that is what the book is about...