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...Pink." What blinded was a dark gold silk ball gown, encrusted to the knees with sparkling jewels and gold sequins. Farah's sleek black hair was piled high in a bun and held in place with a tiara blazing with diamonds and six lime-sized emeralds from the Iranian crown jewels. Other multi-carat emeralds and diamonds adorned a collar at her throat-and Jeweler Harry Winston, who had recently restyled her jewels especially for the party, described them as priceless. Jackie Kennedy, never one to be overshadowed, wore a chic Chez Ninon ball gown with a sleek white...
Some of them, like Harry Lime (Orson Welles), who runs an unimagineably disagreeable trade involving the maiming of small children, are direct apologists for evil. And Anna (Alida Valli), the woman who loves him, must sympathize with it; the British Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) whose job is to erase it, has to be callous, scheming, and often unjust. Powerfully appealing characters as they are, they appear as agents of Greenes' famous preoccupation with the inescapable sordidness of sin in the modern world...
Novelist John C. Hawkes '47, too, should help to strengthen the pro-Miller leanings of the panel. Known for his literary psycho-sexual fantasies, Hawkes has written, among others, the much- heralded The Cannibal and, most recently, The Lime Twig...
Looming up out of the verdant, time-resisting fields of rural France like a grotesque invader from outer space, the great factory hums mechanically about its business. Indifferent to the handful of humans who keep watch, a complex of electronic controls selects silica, alkali and lime from giant bins, mixes them together and feeds them into a white-hot furnace. From the furnace pours forth a river of glass 10 ft. wide, 1.7 in. thick and nearly half a mile long...
...cocktail hour, the WCTU is propagandizing for the "hour of social freedom," at which men and women may relax over beverages such as Top o' the Mornin' Punch (5 cups pineapple juice, 1 cup lemon juice, 3 cups water, 1 qt. ginger ale and 3 pts. lime sherbet), or the Pick-Me-Up (6 tbs. of chocolate syrup, 2 eggs. 2 cups fresh milk, serve in a frosted glass...