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...income (after taxes). From his pigskin-paneled countinghouse above Sáo Paulo's Viaducto do Chá, the count* runs his 300 enterprises (textiles, cereals, shipping, refining) in the style of a 16th century Florentine prince. Big, bleak and impeccably dressed, the count operates from a deep couch in the corner of his immense office. Across the room is a board with vertical lines of electric buttons. At a sign from the count, an attendant leaps forward, then leaps back to punch whichever button the count indicates. The buzzer-button system calls the count's top executives...
Rapid Writer. Ned Buntline wrote hundreds of western and adventure tales. He could turn out a 610-page thriller in 62 hours-complete with such immortal lines as: "[Isabella] arose from the couch whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This...
...living room watching a murder movie called Repeat Performance, as it nickered in on the television screen from Los Angeles' station KTLA. She put them to bed, washed the dishes, and, with these chores done, walked back to the living room and stretched out on the couch...
...lined half-smiling face is still assured and debonair. The romantic star of People Moco over a decade ago still has the old technique. And he demonstrates it in the best Gabin manner as he adroitly maneuvers young leading lady Blanchette Brunoy into his parlour and onto his couch. However, Miss Brunoy's acting ability does not rate her a place on the same couch with Gabin. She is attractive in face and figure, but her facial expression is limited to three looks--sex, innocence, and disdain. Unfortunately, they are not enough...
...dreamer, a romanticist-so I escape to you while my husband dozes on the couch...