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...room: "He saw her catch her breath. The chocolate dropped from her fingers. Her hand went to the base of her lovely white throat; her brilliant eyes burned, a promise to Rémi, a beckoning. He bowed, smiling." Within ten pages they are busily engaged in rumpling the sofa of Rémi's bachelor flat while Jardinier is bound for Amsterdam in his carriage with only a Russian Grand Duchess to tousle...
...Paton's novel by Robert Yale Libott). It is too bad that so much of the serious writing for the theater should be mere rewriting-that playwrights should turn to novels for their plays, as though the best way to make a chair were to cut down a sofa. Alan Paton's dramatized African novel, like so many other adaptations, including Joyce Gary's dramatized African novel, Mister Johnson, loses the swell and amplitude of fiction without achieving the drive and intensity of drama. It is in some ways too obvious, in others too obscure; its scenes...
...joke up to date with a sequence about a vacuum-cleaner salesman who innocently calls on a housewife, is interrupted in mid-spiel by the arrival of the husband, and almost instantly finds himself in the center of a family quarrel. The irate husband throws his wife onto a sofa, then knocks her down against a table; she retaliates by belting him with a vase and breaking a chair over his head. While the salesman, cowering over his vacuum-cleaner attachments, quavers: "You shouldn't do that!" husband and wife batter each other around the room. Jovial M.C. Jack...
...estate in Somerset, named it Agapemone (Abode of Love), and moved in with about 60 "brothers" and "sisters." The Abode featured a church with stained-glass windows, but which differed from most churches in its other furnishings, e.g., there was a billiard table, a Persian carpet and "a red sofa near a bright fire...
...Emmons house with its long view of the bay, have taken up birdwatching. "But you don't have to hike anywhere to watch them," says Mohr. "Since three sides of the living room are of glass, you can spot the birds from a reclining position on the sofa...