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...with the same potential for success or failure-that girls are doctors, engineers, dentists, garbage collectors, accountants, mechanics and chemists. It must be slowly gleaned through years of observation. Mommy doesn't always cook dinner, and Daddy doesn't spend every hour home flopped on the sofa in front...
Janie Cottrell, 24, sank into her sofa in a pair of dark blue hot pants, crossed her showgirl legs and said, "I wanted to be a certified welder more than anything in the world." Which is just what she is. Janie graduated from Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., in 1965, decided to enroll in a business course at the local vocational school. "I didn't like any of it," she says, "especially the charm course. One day in the cafeteria the welding teacher walked by and said, 'What's the matter? You look like...
...giraffe. Similarly, a novel is not a play and a play is not a film. Yet year after year the singular Anglo-American idiocy of trying to adapt a given work from one form to another goes on, a process that Louis Kronenberger once described as "cutting up a sofa to make a chair...
...latest sofa cutter is the distinguished, able and antic English theater director, Peter Brook. Having directed King Lear as a play, Brook has turned it into a film with the same star, Paul Scofield. The picture is never great and not always good...
...stiff by Hitler's political harangues, tried to make herself look more attractive by stuffing handkerchiefs in her bra. She called der Führer "the old gentleman," and it was not until three years after they met that they finally bedded down on the same red velvet sofa that Hitler used to receive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Dictator Benito Mussolini. Said Eva once: "It's a good job they don't know what really took place on that sofa...