Word: pillows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there anything blasphemous in the gossipy intimacies that Therese swaps with her young acolytes about their love for Jesus. "Fondle him," she advises a friend. "That's how I snared him." Therese dies as she lived, a coquette for Christ, gaily fanning the crucifix on her sickbed pillow. "Back together again?" a nun asks of Therese and her beloved. The girl nods: "Poor thing. He's so lonely." Her mission was to make everyone feel happier, less lonely. A century later, she does so on film. Therese is enough to restore one's faith, at least, in the power...
...mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief problem was "to lie down without getting hurt. I started by kneeling and then did the difficult next bit by twisting myself sideways so that my mouth hit the pillow at an angle which allowed breathing. You can tell when it works because you wake up again next morning...
...policemen stood at the entryway for two hours to prevent anyone from entering the building. The Greenoughers went to the Union Parlor B, where they watched television and had a pillow fight, according to Greenough resident Thuylam Tran...
...acter Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Written as a series of blackout scenes involving two working-class pals and the two young women they fancy, the play was rancid, funny and dead-on-target. So why would Screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue want to turn it into a Pillow Talk for the nouveau quiche set? Now the story is about a nice girl (the exemplary Demi Moore) and a pretty guy (Rob Lowe) who triumph over their busybody buddies (Elizabeth Perkins and the splenetically funny Jim Belushi) to form a profoundly modern relationship. The movie is so intent on ingratiating...
Despite some tender pillow talk and David's willingness to follow Catherine to the hairdresser, The Garden of Eden is not the work of a secret quiche eater. Catherine's urges do not come naturally to David. His women are part of the external world, like the baking Mediterranean sun and the bracing sea. As always in Hemingway, those externals are observed with a meticulous objectivity that conveys loneliness. There are also many self-conscious passages on the writer's solitary struggle. For example: "It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better...