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...control production. On the other, it spends millions for research on how to increase production. It issues special publications sufficient to fill a 104-page catalogue. Among the titles: "Influence of Certified Stocks on Spot-Futures Price Relationships for Cotton," "What You Should Know About Leptospirosis," and "Planning a Bathroom." One report is ponderously titled "Human Energy Expenditures as Criteria for Design of Household Storage Facilities." It explains how to design shelf space...
Modern hotels claim luxury with a color telephone in the bathroom and an electric shoeshine kit in the closet; old-style elegance is today as vestigial as the ear lobe. Among the brass, glass and steel chains that proliferate across the country, the few fine old hotels left shine like solid gold pieces. The best of the remaining best is a sprawl of pink and green stucco called the Beverly Hills Hotel, which last week turned 50 years old with style...
...broad belly laugh rather than the snide snigger, and in so doing gave expression to a peculiarly British brand of humor. His very first success, which might draw a wondering shrug or an embarrassed titter outside Britain, but hardly a howl, showed a chambermaid peeping through the bathroom keyhole and saying, "He won't be long now, sir, he is drying himself...
...midst of a rabble of fans who are chanting her name outside a movie house, she speeds back home to Geneva, determined to give it all up. There she plops into the none-too-reluctant arms of Marcello Mastroianni, takes up residence in his apartment, tries suicide in his bathroom, follows him to Spoleto. Director Malle's somewhat awkward purpose in getting her to Italy is to expose her to the flashbulb-popping paparazzi, who destroy her with cameras. The scenery is beautiful, but audiences unaccustomed to BB in a bitter-dregs role may yearn for the bubbly vintage...
...Look at this eye," the doctor snarls at Mountain's manager (Jackie Gleason). "That's sclerotic damage. A couple of good rights to that eye, you can buy him a tin cup and some pencils. Or maybe some day he'll bang his head on a bathroom door and bleed to death. No more...