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Coppola's other films (You're a Big Boy Now, Finian's Rainbow) have been overloaded with a kind of lighter-than-air dramaturgy, and The Rain People sadly falls victim to similar sentimental pretentions. The relationship between Natalie and Kilgannon derives from Of Mice and Men, and much of the dialogue is sophomoric Salinger, as when Kilgannon explains that "the rain people are people made of rain. When they cry, they disappear altogether because they cry themselves away." Still, the geography is simply splendid. Coppola seems to sense that lying between the Hudson River...
...bank decorated in lively shades of yellow, green and blue that contrast sharply with the beige carpets and gray draperies found elsewhere. Club members pay a $3 monthly service charge and must open accounts at the bank with a $50 minimum deposit. In return, they receive 30 rainbow-colored free checks a month, a free $10,000 accidental-death policy and an open line of credit good for up to $2,000. Most accounts start small but soon grow. Terry Colley, the manager of the club, explains: "After they go to a few of our parties, we begin...
...Trout fishing in America, Inc." The button was white with "Trout Fishing in America, Inc." in green Roman capitals, centered, in four lines. Someone had tossed me the button during an interview. I had expected to see the Great American Wilderness and two rainbow trout in a frying pan. Instead the button was very straightforward. And it was tossed by a girl with long black hair, a purple sweater, and no brassiere. I had put it on without thinking...
...love you, Judy," the audience replied. Born Francess Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., to parents in vaudeville, she made her stage debut at 3 and became a national legend at 17 in the film The Wizard of Oz by singing of her longing to be somewhere Over the Rainbow. She attempted suicide in 1950 but then had wildly successful concert comebacks and won Oscar nominations for dramatic roles in A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. She married her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, 34, a former discotheque manager, in London...
...strong sense that certain colors and certain letters of the alphabet are related?p was an unripe apple green, for instance; y's and u's had a brassy "olive sheen." Matching colors and letters, Nabokov evolved a new private word, Kzspygv, which meant but did not spell "rainbow...