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...once accused him of stealing her underwear. Occasionally, however, somebody shows a gift for pointed lawyerly sarcasm. One defendant had smashed part of his neighbor's blaring rooftop alarm to silence it while the neighbor was away. The neighbor, seeking reimbursement, brought along the alarm and a pillow in a red satin case to show that the sound could have been stifled without damaging the system. "Your Honor," said the defendant, "I didn't have a red satin pillow." Wapner ruled in his favor...
Celebration plans were a good deal less rarefied out in the country. The Oxfordshire village of Weston-on-the-Green (pop. 300) scheduled an evening barbecue, dancing and lots of games, including at least two that are not recognized by the International Olympic Committee: a pillow fight on a greased pole laid across a swimming pool, and an English variation on the ancient Greek discus throw, in which the hurled object is a rubber Wellington boot...
...certainly perfected a biting style of bitchcraft. But in the film The Seduction, due to be released late this year, she temporarily gives her bristling image the broom. Morgan plays a TV newscaster who catches the evil eye of a psychotic viewer with more on his mind than pillow talk. The actress certainly seems to cotton to her satin sheet role. "I'm so tired of menacing everyone," she says. "Now at last I get to be menaced." Though the part alters her wicked persona, Morgan has not grown too big for her bitches. This fall, she will return...
...That's right! But ice cream gives me pleasure, a very soft pillow when I'm tired gives me pleasure, a cold shower on a hot day gives me pleasure. Is it the same kind of pleasure?" Soon Adler gets Thomas to agree that beauty pleases the mind as well as the senses. But how does the mind judge beauty? "It's all subjective...
Does life have the final say, as promised, or does Calvino have the last word -like any other author? "You," the reader, will have to decide for yourself as your new bride Ludmilla closes her book, puts her head on the pillow and asks: "Aren't you tired of reading...