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...slimy swimming pool. So far, things have merely been brutal. Now Clouzot lights the spirit lamps of the supernatural. When the corpse doesn't float to the surface of the water, the girls drain the pool. There is no dead man at the bottom. Next, a tailor delivers Paul's freshly cleaned and pressed suit to the school. It is the same one he was drowned in. A class photograph is taken; when the picture is developed, there is Paul's face peering malevolently from a school window. A student turns up to report that...
...their shock, their approval, their disapproval, or their angry impatience at the whole affair. The circumstances were becoming familiar enough to permit a few small and very English jokes about it. In a Punch cartoon, an impressionable child thoughtfully counted the peas on her plate to the words, "Tinker, tailor, soldier, group captain." A BBC comedian asked his straight man to read the day's news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other. But back of the little jokes and the large admonitions, a disquieting uncertainty hung over the nation. Nobody in Britain expected that the Princess...
...become a function of the business community where it was an arm of the church. Despite this evolution, its original seriousness of purpose reappears in modern guise. Book publishing began in Boston as an expression of this curiosity, but spiraling production costs have since forced the editor to tailor his product to financial considerations. Seldom will he issue what he knows will lose money; he would prefer to throw his resources behind a book with one virtue--that people will...
...Although they were mostly old and dog-eared, they were an instant hit. People on both sides of the Iron Curtain thumbed them to tatters. In Belgrade, Yugoslavs used them to learn English; in Athens, a shoemaker designed new shoes from the illustrations; in Djakarta, Indonesia, a Chinese tailor copied an entire Sears wedding ensemble, down to the flower girls' dresses. The impact even reached Moscow, where Russian diplomats consulted the catalogues on what to wear in the U.S. They are now so highly valued that old copies are patched up and rebound in new covers and any tattered...
...cash "plateaus" by identifying flour in five breads for $16,000, five desserts for $32,000 (taxcut to $20,090), found himself with the option of going all the way. Getting ready for his final appearance last week, he took his uniform to be cleaned. Pleaded the tailor: "Let me take it to my synagogue tonight and I'll pray over it." Dick went back to boning up on Volume 23 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (vegetables, vitamins, wines), The Wise Encyclopedia of Cookery and Simon's A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy...