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...stubble-bearded Charles Vanel, an ambiguous private detective with the disconcerting habit of turning up in her bedroom at midnight to report his progress. The terrors mount to the satisfying crescendo of a Gothic nightmare as Vera, haunted by predawn whispers, creakings and rustlings, retreats to her own bathroom, finds the tub filled with water and containing the staring body of her drowned husband. She dies of heart failure, and Director Clouzot brings his masterly thriller to a shocker of a conclusion that no moviegoer should learn in advance...
...study one or more of the hundreds of Government bulletins, F.F.A. information sheets, farm papers or textbooks that are available to him. On the wall above his desk are tacked the green sheets of weekly feed prices that he gets from a feed company. On a stool in his bathroom is a copy of the Farm Journal. All these are part of a vast farm communications network that has made the modern U.S. farmer the best informed and most up-to-date in the world...
...with a happy choice of similes and popular idoms. Sometimes he relishes phrases which are deliberately pompous, almost Dickensian. When several of his college friends once enjoyed too much of his grandfather's brandy, Charlie lay in bed that night and smiled at the "regurgitory choruses" issuing from the bathroom...
...James Purves-Stewart, at that time probably the most widely known neurologist in England, freely granted Freud's great contribution to psychiatry. "But," he said, "Freud's theories are like the bathroom in a house-highly valuable on occasion but no place to stay...
...Those ladies and gentlemen in Henry James's novels-could they ever bring themselves ... to go to the bathroom...