Word: shopgirls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered as "the exalting story of a slum girl who attains integrity through her experiences with men and her love of the dance." Still, it might be advisable to have a look at the picture before showing a print to the kiddies. Giovanna (Silvana Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count count (Michael Rennie), Vittorio sees...
Told in the first person with a fine ear for shopgirl patter, Westward the Sun (a Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer choice) is clearly aimed at readers with hammocks up and guards down...
...Moore, the Brontes and Jane Austen. She likes to forage among the stalls of the Caledonian Market for inexpensive antiques, which she gives away for Christmas presents. She also likes to shop for clothes. "I don't buy any. I just look at them. I'm the shopgirl's despair...
...crowd seemed to like the realism best, voted Java Leopard, a startling, almost photographic jungle scene, their favorite in the show. One advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...
With security measures thus complete, the trial got under way. It was an action by a Brighton shopgirl named Diana Grace Rains-Bath against Russian-born U.S. Hypnotist Ralph Slater (real name Joseph Bolsky) for damage incurred during a music-hall show three years ago. Slater, Diana charged, had not only hypnotized her in the course of his act as he intended, but sent her home in a psychological depression that lasted almost three years. It took, she said, 23 visits to Australian-born Dr. Sydney Van Pelt, president of the British Society of Medical Hypnotists and avowed...