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...clad in a tank suit with a number "3" on its belly, perches on a revolving turnstile. Another, in what may or may not be a bikini top, cuddles on a brown floor rug. Still another, falling out of her low-necked dress, lounges against a lavishly embroidered sofa. The skin of each has the alabaster transparency of beeswax or some expensive face cream made with royal jelly. But their hair, their eyes, their mouths, their stiletto-heeled shoes and the upholstery against which they nestle are all an ugly, and yet powerfully nostalgic, Victorian shade of brown. The mordancy...
...film also stops now and then to ogle gratuitous and unfunny sight gags, like Sinatra asleep on his office sofa under a Yiddish newspaper. It remains one of Hollywood's major mysteries why a performer who puts so much style into his records so often sabotages his genuine talents in shoddy and ill-chosen movie vehicles...
Fifth, books of humorous poetry, whimsical fiction, parody and satire. This category includes Playboy's Little Annie Fannie and The Curious Sofa -- "A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary." Harvard owns No. 83 of the 212 copies printed in 1961 of this work, which bears the title-page inscription, "A perfectly plain brown paper wrapper for purposes of public concealment may easily be made at home." It is an obvious spoof, but someone in Classification didn't laugh...
Though World War II is raging on two fronts, his little station in Czechoslovakia is more worried about its own private conflicts. The paunchy stationmaster constantly clashes with the raunchy dispatcher (Josef Somr), whose life is a round of love-making on the waiting-room sofa. Milos refuses to take sides in the quarrel, and soon earns the enmity of both antagonists. A stiff-necked German official gives him lectures on the nobility of war, which he fails to understand. A nubile girl, Jitka Bendova, entices him into her bed, where he fails to perform. Suicidally, he slashes his wrists...
...performances, and she switched to Graham Greene's Complaisant Lover, which starred Sir Michael Redgrave. In an ingenue supporting role, she made her splash opening night when the elastic of her half-slip gave way. As the silk was heading for the boards, she glided upstage behind a sofa and deftly stepped out of it, thinking she had been unobserved-until the house rattled with applause. Sir Michael dryly recalls "her obvious star quality...