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...trials of a confused young man who sits in his Paris apartment waiting for his assignation with a married American woman. When she fails to appear by 2 a.m., he decides that she has flown back to her husband in New York, lets himself be seduced in a bathroom by a sulphurous blonde in a purple cashmere pullover who has wandered into his place with a crowd of hipsters. Then he suffers the pangs of remorse that any real Frenchman would presumably feel at being unfaithful to another man's wife. He takes poison-just before the American finally...
...bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring, 5½-ft. bronze, The Manipulator, by British Sculptor-Welder Reg Butler. Still sticking to his father's advice, "Never look for a bargain," Bareiss buys "only what I like...
...long it's impossible to get much studying done, dammit. And now Hell Week is coming up, and all studying will be impossible. Besides--all the fraternity parties around here are all the same--the rooms are the same, everything is the same. . . . But this place--with one bathroom for a whole damn corridor--is worse. I'm sick...
...jokes edited by George S. Kaufman. Hero Bill Roth, 23, is an ex-G.I. working for his engineering degree who lives with his parents in The Bronx. He sleeps on a sofa couch in the living room "on the main trade route from the bedroom to the bathroom." When he stays out late with girls or comes home with liquor on his breath, he is treated to his mother's virtuoso sighs: "She was a kind of Toscanini of the sigh. She ranged from a lonely flute to a sixty-mile gale...
From then on the Herrmanns and their house had little peace. Among other things, bottles shattered in the bathroom, a sugar bowl flew across the room, a geography globe hurtled through the hall, a portable phonograph dented the woodwork, and a bookcase containing a 25-volume encyclopedia with an overall weight of some 75 Ibs. turned upside down. Detective Joseph Tozzi of the Nassau County police accumulated a briefcase full of notes but no solution. A technical specialist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Robert E. Zider, went to Seaford with a dowsing rod and a theory that water beneath the Herrmanns...