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...England. "I like what is tranquil and stable,'' he announced, and achieved tranquillity by hanging several of the leaders. He scoffed at earnest middle-class reformers, once received a group of them lounging on his sofa. While they talked, he pulled a feather out of a pillow, began to blow it about the room. "Try to do no good," Melbourne advised, "and then you won't get into any scrapes...
...best out-loud reading since the original Pooh. "Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. They pour water on your head and that's a sacrament. When you are twelve you walk back in yourself with your best dress and shoes on, and you walk up to the Bishop...
Lieut. Bandy learns about liquor when he is sent off on a trench raid with a canteen filled with rum: magnificently drunk, he loses his bearings, raids his own trench, and kidnaps his colonel. Bandy needs all of his Christian resolve to avoid being seduced by a pillow-breasted wench: "She clutched her arms around my head, burying my face even deeper in her bosom until my nose was bent almost double against her sternum and her nipples were stuck in my earholes like a stethoscope...
...went to her virginal pillow in peace...
...Lover is just a stock-situation comedy, but the situation has been worked out as elegantly as a chess problem: opening gam bit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate. The same game, more or less, was played in Pillow Talk, an amusing and lucrative farce turned out in 1959 by the same scriptwriter, Stanley Shapiro, a onetime gag writer for Fred Allen who is now one of the sharpest word boys in the movie business. But this time the interiors are even more giltily decorative, the fashions more spectacularly inconsequintial, the colors more hormone-creamy, the lines more jerky...