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...delighted to-do about dressing the Christmas tree and saving pennies when she shops. Set up by her husband, Torvald, as queen of his private life, she manages his home with charm of a born peacemaker. She doesn't question the rightness of the fact that she has to steal sweets behind her husband's back because he disapproves of candy-eating women. And she never questions his need to feel masterful; she does her best to feed it. Nor does she mind being categorized by him as flighty and irresponsible, deficient in the basic equipment of level-headed logic...
THIS DUO HARDLY SUFFERS the run of the mill depression destitution; they make it big off of everyone else's. They are cool, classy and successful, with enough self-confidence to tell anybody off. The American heartland is their arena for hustling and stealing. They sell Bibles to grieving widows, trade a five and four ones for a ten dollar bill, and steal a bootlegger's liquor to sell it back...
...Petrified Forest. Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart stuck in a cafe in the desert of Arizona, trying to steal scenes. A gripping, almost exhausting drama, with fine performances by all three. Channel...
Most Americans lie, cheat, steal and indulge in arrogance, yet are outraged when they find their elected officials doing the same thing...
...much sex will the market bear? Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown wasn't a bit worried about Playgirl and Viva, the two liberated magazines that have been started up to steal away her 1,700,000 circulation. "The more competition, the better. After all, the pressing question is how to get through the night." Are the 600,000 women who grabbed up Playgirl's first beefcake issue a new breed of female? "No, women are still worried about self-improvement. I throw in the sex, but I try to make Cosmo as much like the Reader...