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...entrepreneur named J.W. Small is promoting it as a rape repellent. Rapel, as his $9.95 product is called, is an inch-long plastic cylinder that contains a fragile glass ampoule of the obnoxious fluid. The pencil-thick device can be clipped to the inside of a dress, bra or nightgown; when pressed lightly, the ampoule breaks, releasing the ardor-killing odor. One rape crisis expert frets that Rapel "lulls the user into a false sense of security." Perhaps, but another drawback has already been solved: each package comes with a container of a neutralizing fluid that quickly dissipates the smell...
...Richard III, leaning over a butt of marmsy wine in which he has just drowned a lush theater critic, sighing, "I hope he travels well"; Peter Cushing prattling pleasantly about stakes through the heart over snifters of brandy, while upstairs the heroine, her bosom heaving out of her nightgown, opens her window for Christopher Lee, his eyes blazing red, grinning through his fangs as he nuzzles her neck...
...awed conviction of a child who knows that Santa will come for Christmas. Her anticipation is boundless when she begins to read a new script--"even the mimeographed sheets smell good." The dark eyes dance; one suddenly sees the little six-year-old who danced in her nightgown before that mirror...
...quite possible to attend Despair in the wrong frame of mind, having worked one's emotions into shape for piano moving, so to speak, only to find that there is nothing heavier than a seltzer bottle or a nightgown being lifted. Despair is, in fact, a light and lavender comedy about a crazed Russian émigré named Hermann Hermann, who watches in amazement as his mind splits like his name, into two equal parts. The film is set in Berlin. Based on a 1936 novel written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, it is hopeless in mood, but most...
Long before she saw her first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. She knew as a six-year-old standing before a mirror in a nightgown that became "a costume in some dream," knew as a student standing before the ballet barre, "trying too hard to be a dancer," knew as a 16-year-old, standing before her parents and "auditioning" as Joan of Arc. So when she graduated from high school she turned down the college acceptances--among them, one from Radcliffe College--and took her first job in the theater (she ended up in Cambridge...