Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian officer turns to leave the American, German, Englishman, and French woman he has met on the Berlin express, he lets fall to the pavement the card bearing the American's address. An insidious fear begins to creep up on the moviegoer; surely this allegorical film of our times is going to justify all the advance publicity given it by the Hearst press. But "Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye...
...Wiesbaden, Germany, a refugee from Silesia declared that she had been living next door to Adolf Hitler in Liegnitz- on President Roosevelt Strasse. (Skeptical military government officials said that it was Russia's problem.) "He has a triangular mustache now," said the woman, "and he grows sideburns ... He is living with a small, dark woman . . . He has formed a new party-the T.P.Z. I don't know what it stands...
...Domergue happily. "Of course when I started she wasn't called a pinup, but she has developed into one. Now this particular painting I have been thinking of for ten years; one day it suddenly came to me. It is the eternal drama of the man pursuing the woman. He is successful in the end, but, as in so many cases, he is spiritually killed...
When the patients were hitched up to the electrocardiograph, the doctors deliberately stirred up their emotions. Examples: one patient developed a noticeable arrhythmia (irregular beating) when the doctor mentioned his in-laws; a woman patient's heart began skipping when the doctors referred to her illegitimate child; the same sort of extrasystoles (premature contractions of the heart) showed up on the electrocardiograph when they asked a 61-year-old spinster why she had never married...
Arabesque is mainly a pleasantly concocted adventure story. A bilingual beauty named Armande Herne, stranded in Beirut in 1941, piques the curiosity of both French and British Intelligence. Odd though it seems, she is neither a poule de luxe nor a Nazi agent-just a lonely woman. No sooner have the security police made certain of this than they succeed in putting ideas in her pretty head: she should use her charm to strike a blow for Britain...