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...costumes, is superb in every respect. Its somber facade, constructed from grayish lumber, in three tiers of Italianate colonnades, is appropriately weighty in appearance. A quick turn of some stage machinery turns left-stage quickly into Arabella's bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon on the end, then it becomes pure scarlet); a massive crucifix lowered from the ceiling turns right-stage into the friar Bonaventura's cloister. Especially after intermission Vaughan makes very effective use of the traditional alcove...
Video-taped pinkies are beginning to face stern competition. In some of Osaka's hotel rooms, video-tape recorder systems have been installed. A flick of a switch near the pillow starts a video-tape camera recording activity on the bed. Afterward, another switch provides instant replays. Rooms so equipped are in steady demand: one couple attempting to sample the pleasures of an avec hotel was ordered by the maid to wait for a call at a nearby coffeehouse. "All the rooms are occupied," she said, "as usual...
...fakes pregnancy (with the help of a pillow) to get on welfare. She does not succeed, though, because the case-worker who comes to call is enamored of her silver shoes ("Just like the shoes Joan Crawford always wore!") to the extent that he will not put her on the dole list unless she gives them to him. She will not. Bribing welfare workers to get the money she rightfully deserves is a violation of her principles...
...what fun I had in our third-grade play at M.K.E.S.-Mt. Kisco Elementary School-when I got to play Santa himself in all his red, pillow-stuffed splendor. Hadn't that been the height of my academic career? How can I dump...
...urban congestion, pollution, racial unrest, constant apprehension over violence and crime. Actor Steve McQueen plans to move with his wife and two children to Switzerland next year. Says his wife Neile, who was a friend of the murdered Sharon Tate: "I sleep with a gun under my pillow because I don't trust anybody. We have an electric alarm at the gate and house alarm system, and it's still not enough. This is no way to live...