Word: tubfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After letting him soak in the tub overnight, the girls smuggle the corpse to the school grounds, dump it in the 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...
...Charles Vanel, an ambiguous private detective with the disconcerting habit of turning up in her bedroom at midnight to report his progress. The terrors mount to the satisfying crescendo of a Gothic nightmare as Vera, haunted by predawn whispers, creakings and rustlings, retreats to her own bathroom, finds the tub filled with water and containing the staring body of her drowned husband. She dies of heart failure, and Director Clouzot brings his masterly thriller to a shocker of a conclusion that no moviegoer should learn in advance...
...unique way, ex-Prisoner Wayne has stayed anti-Communist by remaining pro-female; whenever the Reds got too rough, he paid them no mind, just conjured up an image of "Baby," a composite of the girl-in-every-port, and chatted with her. Wayne pilots his old tub by night and fog, through storm and boiler stress, gun fight and slugfest, not omitting to make Mao's navy look like a fleet of Sunday oarsmen. But what matters most is that the end frame finds the hero safe in port (Lauren Bacall...
...communism. For, to Reed, revolution was, as John Dos Passos '16 writes, "a voice as mellow as Copey's, Diogenes Steffens with Marx for a lantern going through the west looking for a good man, Socrates Steffens kept asking why not resolution? Jack Reed wanted to live in a tub and write verses; but he kept meeting bums workingmen husky guys he liked out of luck out of work why not revolution...
...Harley Stansberry of Sterling, Colo., did some heavy washing in her basement two months ago, and she was extra careful to empty her tub of lye water well away from little Mike, who was playing on the floor near by. But Mike, 28 months, found the drain hose, and some of the lye solution was still in it. Mike swallowed and screamed. His mother rushed him to a doctor, who gave him mineral oil and kept him on soothing milk and ice cream for three weeks. But one morning Mike could no longer swallow: scar tissue had closed his esophagus...