Word: sofas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shortly before she died last year of cancer. An excerpt from her memoir, which appears in the December Ladies ' Home Journal, tells about off-duty hours spent together, mutual professions of love and, despite Ike's marriage to Mamie, plans for children. "We would sit on the sofa in the living room, listen to records, have a couple of drinks, smoke a few cigarettes and steal a few kisses," she remembers. According to Summersby, stolen kisses were as much as the wartime friends could manage. Summersby claims that the general was impotent when they tried to make love...
Surely these letters would bear witness to a woman of brilliance, possibly genius. There are, in fact, marvelously unmodified capsule comments on her reading. She devoured Crime and Punishment on her honeymoon, lying on a sofa nibbling chocolates, and she kept reading and judging-nonstop, it seemed-happily ever after. While Dostoevsky was nonpareil, others came off less fortunately. Conrad, the letter reader learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug...
Algernon's clipped witticisms and Miss Prism's agonized confrontation with her own carelessness are the two high points of this production. But its real star is Joe Mobilia's sets, whose every detail--from the porcelain tea service to the yellow silk upholstered sofa--elegantly evokes late victorian decadence...
...drearily familiar story: a consumer buys an auto, refrigerator, sofa or whatever, and signs a time-payment contract. The product quickly breaks down or proves otherwise defective, and the dealer refuses to repair or replace it. Understandably, the consumer then tries to withhold payment-only to find that his contract has been sold by the dealer at a discount to a bank, finance company or other lender. The lender proclaims, quite correctly, that as the purchaser of a presumably valid contract-in legal parlance, as a "holder in due course"-he has no responsibility for the merchandise...
...blowing his own horn. The huge hands (he can span a twelfth, which is an octave plus four white notes) were spread imploringly on the table. The gray-blue eyes gazed boyishly across the hotel room where his wife of 43 years, Aniela, his Nela, was reading on the sofa. In the inquiring way that some husbands have with wives they depend on, he was at once asking for confirmation and for permission to boast...