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...times," casting each other in roles to suit their own purposes. Did the woman or the husband introduce the wife to the movie Odd Man Out! Did the husband once meet the woman in a pub and go to a party with her where he gazed up her skirt? The answers do not matter, only the assertions. "There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened," says the woman. "There are things I remember which may never have happened, but as I recall them, so they take place...
...across the stage and run unseen by their older living images?a double exposure in three dimensions. The principals are, literally, beside themselves with grief. For, as it happens, the Weismann theater is not the only institution awaiting the wrecking ball. The other is marriage. Sally and her glib, skirt-chasing husband Buddy (Gene Nelson) have become pathetic caricatures of the Andy Hardy couple they once were?naivete swallowed by facts. Phyllis and her acrid WASP's-nest of a husband Ben (John McMartin) are glamour gone dry, a wasteland with wedding rings...
...machine, which looks like a miniature steel rolling mill, maneuvers a laser beam over cloth to cut garments according to computer-determined patterns. It acts with speed, accuracy and a flexibility that human cutters cannot match. It can cut a man's sport coat, a woman's skirt and a child's pair of shorts consecutively from the same roll of cloth. Genesco Chairman Franklin Jarman says that it will enable a clothing firm to introduce a new style in midseason, or immediately fill a retailer's unexpected order for additional garments "almost solely by pushing...
...hollow tree to cure venison. She also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove out, picket pin, beholden, boughten), but the prose is straightforward enough for Hemingway...
...your Business section, you ran pictures of our lovely stewardesses [Feb. 8], who definitely are unisex-all female. However, the young lady with the long skirt is modeling our later '40s attire, not our new 1971 field flowers collection...