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...Deer, Alta., is a Canadian farm center of only 25,000 population. Yet in a single day recently, Red Deer's merchants rang up $1,000,000 in sales to Christmas-shopping prairie farmers. Some bought second and third TV sets; their wives got leopard jackets ("much choicer than mink") and Russian squirrel coats. A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars, while the Ford man stopped taking orders altogether "until we catch up." For winter vacations, Red Deer's travel agents recommend Hawaii, Hong Kong, the West Indies. When summer comes...
...galosh has gone galumphing into oblivion, and in its place is the musketeer boot, the Robin Hood boot, the cossack boot, lined, unlined, fur-topped, made of fake leopard or silk faille or nylon mesh or even real leather. Office girls wear them to work at the slightest sign of inclement weather, carrying their shoes in a tote bag (the smarter ones keep a pair of shoes in their desk). For the evening, slippers are carried in jeweled reticules...
...LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily...
...LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in one of the year's finest films: Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily...
...Fabrizio, in fact, makes only one speech of any length. He turns down a senatorial post in the new regime with the words: "sleep, sleep, sleep, that is what Sicilians want...a hankering for voluptuous immobility." The failure of Visconti's often beautiful and voluptuous Leopard is that it encourages just such immobility in the viewer...