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...Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...According to Department of Agriculture Leaflet No. 340 (The Periodical Cicada), the noise goes: "Tsh-ee-EEEE-e-ou" ... or sometimes, "AH-O-oo...
...legs were once banned from the Paris metro-too tantalizing to straphangers-so when unfading Marlene Dietrich, 57, turned up to show her classic calves for real, the Olympia music hall bulged with appreciative Frenchmen. With the old seductiveness, she caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...
...hide nothing; to try everything.'' This is the motto of Vadim's hero and heroine (Gérard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau), a man and wife who not only tolerate but even energetically promote each other's affaires de corps. And then, afterward-oo la la! What fun it is to lie in bed together and tell what happened. One night the wife has the sulks: her lover of the moment has jilted her for an innocent young girl (Jeanne Valerie) whom he plans to wed. The wife simply must get even. Would the husband mind...
...really a way to adjust your mind to top management," explains one G.E. executive. "The quicker you start to think of a business problem as a thing without human beings, the bet-er you'll do." Not to be outdone, competing Westinghouse has its own game, oo. "But," says its training director, [. C. McKeon, "we have no illusions hat you can play a game and then step 3ut and manage a company...