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...Casablanca's teeming Mzdina Orharab quarter last week, veiled Moroccan matrons surreptitiously rummaged through piles of secondhand brassieres, modestly hid their purchases under their flowing djellabah cloaks. Mothers with babies tied to their backs bought young daughters pastel organdy dresses...
Daphne's childhood is haunted by the go-away bird, a grey-crested lourie, or parrot, whose eponymous cry seems to her a command to leave the provincial, semisavage, secondhand and second-rate life of a British African colony for the authentic glories of historic England. Alas, her dreams are of a "land that was not, that is passed away"-the Rupert Brooke-ish Lubberland where the church clock stands at ten to 3, and there is honey still for tea, where life is a vision of white flannels on a vicarage lawn, and the Guard is always being...
...softhearted. "The frail young woman with a drove of ragged children trailing her is often an agent for some secondhand store, and follows all of the rummage sales in that same appealing manner. If some customers seem actually needy, tell them how to get in touch with a charitable organization that does not charge...
...alone is not enough. As the crew breathes, it contaminates the air with exhaled carbon dioxide. In older subs the way to get rid of it was to absorb most of it in a caustic such as lithium hydroxide. The nuclear subs must have a far more elaborate system: secondhand air is passed through a liquid containing monoethanolamine, which absorbs carbon dioxide at room temperature, is then heated, and releases the gas so that it can be piped...
...poker palaces, waits for "a disk jockey to pick her number out of a phone book" and give her "a life supply of dentifrice." Later she lets her human feelings leak away in pointless sexual episodes, finally tries to run away from her dilemma at reckless speed in a secondhand car. She smashes up, but in the shadow of death she finds at last "the courage to say no to nothingness" and yes to life. Produced in Los Angeles for about $65,000. put up by the people who worked in the film, The Savage Eye is photographed with Hogarthian...