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...fives, push their way into the church. But the nave is crowded. The old women took their places early on Easter eve. They snap at each other and the girls come out. They circle around the courtyard, shout insolently, call each other from afar, and inspect the small green, pink and white flames lit outside the windows of the church and beside the tombs of canons and bishops. As for the boys-tough and mean-looking-all have an air of victory (though what victories, except perhaps knocking a ball through a goal, have they won in their...
Dorms are discouraging places for boys to visit. They have to be stared at by 100 girls to get to see one. All the apparatus of bells, pink slips, tags, and signing in for parietals makes it a Special Occasion every time a boy comes, when everyone would be happier if it could be Just Dropping By. Girls are supposed to yell "Man on" when they bring their visitors upstairs and put a sign on the door after they have evacuated their roommate to leering suppositions underlying these procedures put the focus on just what the authorities are presumably trying...
...from behind the desk. Mrs. Markin was wondering if Mildred was wondering if the formal reception of the boss's wife betrayed an uneasiness about the boss's wife's presence. I'm not, after all, another businessman, though Mrs. Markin. She envisioned Mildred in a floor length, soft pink night gown. Did the same poised, shining face which looked across the desk, look up that way from a pillow? "O Mr. Markin," would it say, "You've not come like that in such a long time. You better rest now. Here, take this breast." Mrs. Markin smiled politely...
...Love cologne, say the ads, has "the light fragrance you should wear all over." Shadowing sticks called Love-shines are announced as available in a number of colors, including Sexy (a rosy pink); they are to be used to "contour and color your eyes, face, all your other kissable little curves and hollows." Television commercials show a model applying Loveshines to the cleavage in her bosom. In another TV spot, a young man watches his girl friend spread Love's Basic Moisture over much of her body and sighs: "It's done wonders for her whole mental outlook...
...Demy has an unerring instinct for the stylishly avantgarde. She photographed Les Créatures as if it were a Vogue layout, and edited it elliptically. She even tinted the fantasy scenes to avoid confusion: red for those influenced by the mad engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp for pith and winds up only with pretension...