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Truffaut creates an aura of sterility around everything in the hero's life. His job (he's the book-burner) is to regulate his students' behavior (they're the future book-burners) in class and to follow a strict regimen himself on the truck. Oskar Werner demonstrates with tight-lipped professionalism that the first place to look for a book is the toaster. He stands out against the brash red of the fire engine--black uniform, arms akimbo--like a medieval executioner. His domestic life is equally grim. His wife is preoccupied with the puppets and parrots on their mammoth...
...mistakenly equate illiteracy with lack of intelligence. When the pill regimen is explained to illiterate women, they apparently follow the instructions even more faithfully than many middle-class American women...
Secular Support. Though it will be weeks before meaningful sales figures are in, U.S. Catholics seem as inclined toward fishless Fridays as their Canadian neighbors. In Manhattan an Ancient Order of Hibernians group celebrated the new regimen over platters of roast beef at an East Side pub. Jesuit-run Boston College is adding meat to its Friday menu. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, fish got a secular show of support: the Harvard Food Services office decided to keep fish on Friday, reasoning that it is "as good...
...days after each performance; his distraught wife says he sings every ten days. Ezio Pinza, on the other hand, held the belief that "the night before, it's terrible, but just before going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love regularly, I get bad-tempered, my voice gets heavy and my eyes bloodshot. If I do overdo it, however, my high C sharps run the risk of finishing up as C naturals." Tenor Ramon Vinay claims that during one long period of deprivation...
...develop a woman's finest natural assets" could be found at her two "Maine Chance" farms. She opened the original in Mount Vernon, Me., in 1934, followed up in 1947 with a second in Phoenix. Described as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," they prescribed a regimen of exercise, treatment, swimming and riding, all on an austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been high (currently, $750 to $800 a week), and the clientele has included Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Ava Gardner...