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...makeup and cut models' hair herself. It was while she was at Harper's that she originated the now legendary "Why Don't You?" column, peppered with such items as "Why don't you bring back from Central Europe a huge white baroque porcelain stove to stand in your front hall? . . . Why don't you have your bed made in China? . . . Why don't you wash your child's hair in champagne...
...claim that most experts do not believe. Other expeditions met only heartbreak or death. In 1924, just 800 ft. from the summit, George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanished forever into the swirling mists. And in 1952, without sleeping bags or even a stove to boil water on, a party of Swiss struggled to 28,200 ft., where sheer exhaustion forced them to turn back...
...baldheaded, spade-bearded little Lothario killed ten women is not shown, but his method of disposing of their remains is made clear: in the kitchen is a long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic...
...biggest assembly of these fragile sketches since the 1907 memorial show in Paris, held a year after Cézanne died. They are priceless, rainbow-hued documents of his passionate, lifelong homage to nature, but Cézanne often treated them like so much scrap; he even lighted the stove in his Provençal studio with works that might now be worth as much as $16,000 each. Only the foresight of his friends and early admirers-Gertrude Stein. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro-saved those that are left...
...Cannon earned his keep by working as a yard man. Last winter the cold clamped down on Memphis. There was no work and no money, and Gus almost froze. When his stove went out in January, he hocked his banjo for $20 worth of coal. It was the first time that banjo had ever been out of his hands, and Gus Cannon's neighbors had to get used to nights without his music. But just when poverty seemed to have him silenced, at 79, the old man made it as a composer: a group called the Rooftop Singers recorded...