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Through her parlor window she has watched the world build and the buildings crumble; neon signs, sound trucks, street-cleaners, and bums. She has blessed armies and saved tin cans, and occasionally knitted a sock, in private...
Page after page Monocle employs the lead sock and mailed fist on modern civilization, its low-life and its literature. Gone is the gentle velvet touch or the cultivated wit; in its place--attended by the three old shrews of overstatement, needless elaboration, and editorial foot-note--is the effective finesse of the piledriver. Monocle Credits cleverly mention precisely what the author's parodying, to allay the confusion...
...defence of Radcliffe's hesitancy, however, it should be said that a universal raising of hemlines might be too much of a good thing. Indeed, it has been one of winter's silver linings that the skirt always began before the sock left...
...charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees and matrimony. By a mysterious chemistry that even the song pluggers do not understand, the song became an overnight sock. Jimmie followed it up with his current hit, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, which is also sweeter than syrup. Jimmie's professional equipment includes a pleasant, relaxed young voice, a hunchy, fingersnapping rhythmic sense, and a totally undistinguished way with a guitar...
...heroes at work in the FBI's Quantico, Va. laboratories. From secret files came a sequence of rare excitement. Filmed by G-men through a transparent mirror in his office wall, it showed German Spy Frederick Joubert Duquesne clandestinely removing diagrams of the M-1 rifle from his sock...