Word: nightgown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more about the men in the film, who are shadows and ciphers. The single most shattering scene in the film becomes, for this reason, unnecessarily oblique. Preparing herself for bed one evening, Karin takes a shard of glass and lacerates her genitals. Raising the frail white silk of her nightgown toward her waist, showing her husband the blood running down her thighs, she grins in triumph and with a hint of perverse satisfaction. Because we know so little of her husband, though, Karin's act is neither thoroughly motivated nor sufficiently provoked...
DRESSED in a navy blue nightgown with white piping at the neckline, Dita Beard chain-smoked cigarettes in Room 269 of Denver's 178-bed Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Hospital behind a sign that said NO SMOKING PLEASE, OXYGEN IN USE. Under treatment for a heart ailment, Dita was well protected against unwanted visitors by tight screening. Western Union called with a telegram that had to be read to her personally. The message: GET YOUR FAT ASS BACK-THERE'S NO ONE TO BUY DRINKS. Dita's laugh rumbled from her diaphragm. "Must be my old drinking buddies...
...halves. Segal is one of America's best comic actors, and he has ample opportunity to display his talents as a small-time conman and junkie. Captured by a bunch of crooks he has doublecrossed, and locked into a lady's bedroom without his clothes, he dons a pink nightgown and exposes himself through the window to a watching neighbor below, hoping she'll call the police. As he jumps up and down in anguish, opening the nightgown and desperately trying to show enough of himself over the windowsill, the girl slowly starts to strip...
...Ohio, a four-year-old girl was dressed in her nightgown, ready for bed. Then she decided to take a last look at her pet bird. She clambered to the top of the kitchen range for a closer view, nudged the gas burner and her nightgown all but exploded in flames. It took 97 days and eleven skin grafts before she could leave the hospital. Even so she was luckier than many others. The Government estimates that 3,000 to 5,000 Americans die each year from burns, many associated with flammable clothing and interior furnishings. Another...