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...Hollywood hotel: "a stoop-shouldered, overworked wraith with an air of patient resignation like that of Zasu Pitts." Perelman is making a pass at a beautiful colleen (all his women are beautiful but for lips or nostrils that are a trifle too sensuous, a figure a shade too voluptuous) and: "I was just about to propose that we hie ourselves to a tumbledown shack in Athlone when a behemoth the size of Brian Boru, a great loogan with ropes around his corduroys, clumped into the snug." Her fiance, Rory McClobber...
...Brun. A protege of Edith Piaf (the program quotes Piaf as saying, "She's the only one who could replace me without being ridiculous."), Le Brun looks like a dumpy, dumped-on Dietrich. In voice and accent she is often quite heart-wrenching, and although her biggest numbers occasionally shade off into the histrionic, she generally manages to combine strength and force with a telling sensitivity...
...FLEETING, final confrontation. It is the end of a heavy autumn day, probably a Thursday, Sybil is walking back from the Coop, carrying all the books for two new courses, a lamp-shade and a box of ginger snaps. Coming towards her, she recognizes Stanley, an old boyfriend whom she has not seen since the summer. She looks up at him, and he stares at her, stares right through her as if they have never met. They have known each other for years, have exchanged birthday presents, have probably slept together. He looks right through her and doesn't speak...
...eagle is the U.S. The verse is part of a protest song that is popular in the cafés and boîtes of Santiago. In the dim light of those peñas folklóricas, as they are known, Chilean students representing every shade of the leftist spectrum?from Christian Democrat to anarchic urban terrorist?gather to sing their praise of Fidel Castro's Cuba and their passionate hatred of the local oligarchy...
...market, nearly 150,000 People Paper pieces have sold (the most expensive, a Victorian brass headboard at $6). All adhere to any surface, can be switched around and remounted like a stage backdrop. They also give their owners some grand illusions: of a phone without phone bills, a Tiffany shade that does not have to be insured, and a bubble-gum machine that is guaranteed never, never...