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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extension of Shaw's Man and Superman, the Devil decides to send Don Juan (Robert Mandan) to earth to see what is causing the trouble. Up goes Don Juan-into a most un-Seville world. He tries to guitar his way through a modern woman's window, but she (Beverly McFadden) is impatient with all that jazz. Her door stands open. He purrs softly: "To describe your beauty, night, which veils your modesty, would blush." "Modesty?" says the broad. "I only slipped this on because it's a little cool after the sun goes down." Her husband...
...when she first fell in love, but even then she scarcely knew what was happening to her. Each morning a young field hand named Salvatore Funari would pass by her family farmhouse in the sun-baked Sicilian town of Scordia. At first he only glanced up at her window, and then, whistling gaily, went on. But soon he began to wave, and one morning he boldly cried "Buon giorno!" In time Nina found the courage to say "Buon giorno" too, and occasionally she and Salvatore would even hold a brief conversation. After two years of this, Nina began wearing...
Then one night, returning home late, Salvatore saw a light in Nina's window. He knocked on her door, and when she answered, he impulsively kissed her. Happy and carefree, Salvatore promptly went home, but Nina was stunned. What had Salvatore done to her? Her four stern-faced brothers muttered darkly about the family honor. One village busybody sniffed: "A girl kissed is three-quarters compromised...
...Shape of the Thing. In Buffalo, John Baldyga escaped with a 60-day suspended sentence after he admitted in court that he had thrown a bowling ball through the window of a restaurant because the place served him a square pizza...
Peter lunges for the bottle, despite the snake. He lurches over to the hotel window and begins his inane, compulsive ritual, shouting the names of the Derby winners in backward sequence at the passers-by far below: "Broker's Tip, Burgoo King, Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox ... Flying Ebony. Jump, Peter. Fly like Flying Ebony." Another snake, as big as his thigh, strikes at him. The bottle drops and shatters on the radiator. Sobbing "Leave me alone. No more. No more," Peter collapses across the hotel bed on the bare breast of the nymphomaniacal redhead with whom he is sharing...