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...Boccaccio '70, in which Sophia is again la dònna popolana, playing an illiterate Neapolitan girl who works in a traveling fair and delivers her body each Saturday night to the winner of a raffle. The fair itself is alive with superb detail, from the smallest of watermelon seeds to the largest of the paunchy Italian farmers with hot breath and sausage fingers. In this milieu, Sophia is not a star showing off but a figure that belongs...
What they found made a banner headline in the Examiner last week: BOYD'S CAMPING JAUNT EXPOSED. Below, the Examiner reported that the Boyds had disappeared, jubilantly printed a description of their primitive campsite: "Kitchen matches. Shells from fresh eggs. Empty cans which once contained spaghetti. Watermelon rinds. July issue of the Reader's Digest. So much toilet tissue that some of it had been used to start a fire." The Examiner cautiously refrained from drawing any snide conclusions. But the evening News-Call Bulletin, jointly owned by Hearst and Scripps-Howard, was less kind: "The Examiner published...
...fired 60 department underlings, brought corruption charges against 90 more and started investigations of 400 others. He found one tax examiner whose income rose $40,000 in a year, a customs inspector who reported and charged duty on only 100 lbs. of a 20,000-lb shipment of watermelon seeds. He warned ministry employees to stay away from race tracks, cockpits, casinos and especially Manila's thriving new "dayclubs," a collection of cabarets complete with B-girls catering to men who found it easier to get away from their jobs in the afternoon than their wives at night. Officials...
...order seed house. To spread the joys of gardening, Burpee each year mails out 4,000,000 copies of his catalogues, which bloom with richly flowered prose, amaze with promises of something "never before seen in asters," and unfold the mysteries of celtuce (a celery-lettuce combination) and midget watermelon...
...asked to wave it as if to give a signal to the men to open fire." The second time, the body of the Chinese soldier was used in the filmed sequence. Between making statements and signing them, the prisoners were taken from their pit into the sunlight, served watermelon, and lectured on "Sino-Indian friendship...