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...occasional tourist, the Sigurimi appear more comic than lethal. Whole platoons of gumshoes peel off two by two to shadow individual visitors. Any attempt to talk to an Albanian results in his being shouldered out of earshot by an agent. One tourist on the beach at Durres succeeded in evading his shadow by swimming out beyond the breakers to accost an Albanian girl in a bikini. The girl, treading water, said: "I would like to have a long talk with you, but you must know that in this country it is impossible...
When Bruce put the first record on to play, we noticed that it seemed wet. Bruce had removed it from a special polyethlene sleeve which he had had to peel from it like backing from one of those bumper stickers. Somewhat taken aback, we asked him about it. It seems that Bruce uses a special silicone lubricant on his records which he figures cuts record wear by about 75%. This gunk has the happy advantage of not gumming up the needle (as most record cleaners do). Although the records are somewhat sticky to handle and dust might tend to cling...
...know what they cost you? Sixty cents a pound. That's what it figures out to. Convenience foods, eh? Remember you still had to boil 'em. You've paid somebody 55? a pound for peeling your potatoes for you. For that kind of dough, I'll peel anybody's potatoes...
...feminine mysteries are essentially inexpressible, and writers who try to express them slip generally into soap opera or a sort of exquisite silliness. Author Godden does neither, and in this film, which clings to her theme and hues to her mood as the clear peel colors and cleaves to a plum, the camera seems at moments to enlarge and lay bare on the screen the inmost, intimate mystery of maturation. Too often the view is obscured by the arabesques of an intricate and suspensefully entertaining plot, but often enough the onlooker is left quietly alone with Actress York...
...road. A ride across the arching bridges, down the six-lane expressways, under the water and beneath cities, even through buildings, past automated toll booths, in and out of sweeping cloverleafs is an experience few Europeans can farget. On the intricate stacks of downtown Los Angeles, where motorists peel off like jet fighters, on the rolling expanses of the longest toll road-the 561-mile-long New York State Thruway-U.S. drivers are routinely enjoying an achievement in engineering skill and a manifestation of public wealth unmatched anywhere else on earth. Today's superhighways cost an average...