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...theater. But for all the child's whispered charges of Lesbianism and her grandmother's shouted ones, The Children's Hour is something more than shocking, as it is something more than tense. Despite its heightened stage qualities, it cuts sharply back into life-to the monstrous power of gossip, to the sick, psychopathic nature of evil, to how calamitously the upright people of the world-such as the grandmother-can blunder...
...through the soft-furred pouch on the beast's belly and marveled at such a freak of nature. In that age of exaggerations, the little cat-sized creature grew into weird shapes in the minds of men. To the Venetian court reporter, Peter Martyr, it looked like a "monstrous beaste with a snowte lyke a foxe, a tayle lyke a marmasette, eares lyke a batte, handes lyke a man, and feete lyke...
...mashed potatoes being dumped upon his tray reminding him of his surroundings. At the end of the line Vag picked up a coffiee and then stopped. He peered out over the tables packed with babling undergraduates, all of them waving their arms back and forth energetically. Over the monstrous babble of the dining hall separate phrases hit his car--"Marshall's report in '46 proved. . . Any senator, and I don't care what party, who takes. . . Just a babe in the wood, I tell you, a babe in the woods. . . And do you know what they would do with...
...month-old son, left Cairo in a hurry. He took 204 trunks with him into exile, but left most of his other possessions behind. Last week, for the first time, a group of Western newsmen got a peek at some of them. An Egyptian army captain rolled back the monstrous iron gates of famed Kubbeh Palace and cheerfully announced: "Boys, you're going to see things here that you probably thought didn't exist...
...half a century of blissful selfdelusion, he has failed to perceive that the family automobile is the most monstrous engine...