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...panther. Her curves do not pop the eyes. Her legs are a little too lean and a mite long (she is 5 ft. 7 in.). Her jaw is on the prognathous side. Her feet are a little less than dainty (size 8); when she played Cinderella on TV, her slipper could almost have fit the Prince. And she's got freckles on her nose...
Even in these publishing days when anything go-goes, it is not often that a character from a novel can show up in a photograph on the front of the jacket all splayed out upside down on an opulently embroidered bedspread, wearing one slipper, two fancy garters, and what used to be called a ball gown. Night Games, however, was made as a film before it could be read as a novel, so the movie, starring Ingrid Thulin, provided the dust-jacket come-on. The rest of the come-on is Mai Zetterling, a talented and glamorous 41-year...
...Shoe. The object of supreme adoration was the bound foot itself. It was caressed with an intensity and ingenuity that often make this volume read like a Chinese Kinsey report. The cult of the lotus inspired a corollary cult of the shoe. Many a young man slept with a slipper that belonged to his beloved-indeed, an elderly Chinese ambassador to Moscow made no secret of the fact that he carried a trunk of tiny shoes and, as Levy puts it, "privately amused himself with them...
...wrote, "are based on reason, and yours are merely the fruit of stupidity"). He was more jovial with his valet Carteron: "Ah: you ancient pumpkin cooked in bugs' juice, third horn of the devil's head, codface drawn out like the two ears of an oyster, slipper of a procuress." It was hardly an appropriate tone to take with one's valet, but Carteron was no ordinary valet; he was a member of the orgy...
...ball on the outside corner. His table partner is an aging, embittered divorcee (Vivien Leigh), who reacts with exquisite distaste to a recital of his gastric misadventures in Mexico. Many scenes later, in a fit of sexual combustion, she beats Marvin nearly insensible with the heel of her gilded slipper...