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...youth and inexperience, as harmless as chickenpox; in his convalescent state he realized that stablemen didn't need company as much as they needed better living accommodations. During the three years he was president of Belmont Park, he fought the favoritism the big stables got, and put in shower rooms and sleeping facilities in the public stables. He still listens to advice, even from newspapermen, but it just goes into the general fund...
...move there. They found a $25-a-month "studio"-a single room above Manhattan Public Relations Man. Pendleton Dudley's garage-and used it as a bedroom, sitting room and office. The Wallaces cooked on a two-burner gas stove in the corner, washed in a stall shower in the garage below...
...spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind him. Downstairs he washed his shirt, took a shower, dressed and bicycled away...
...Viking, by Edison Marshall, seems to be written expressly for readers who collect unusual sensations. For the ladies there is, for instance, the medieval equivalent of the cold shower: the feel of icy armor against warm bosom. For the men there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters...
...that his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski, 100% Polish-American, is entirely a mixture of brat and brute, as some reviewers have presented, doing scant justice to the range and subtlety of his acting. At his most manic, he still displays changes of pace as dazzling as an electric shower. At his very best, the show of force shades off into genuine strength and Kowalski becomes exactly life sized, a well-intentioned and sympathetic character...