Word: fakes
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...that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps, she replied: "Those are fake bumps, honey." The cops went away...
Sleep, My Love (Triangle; United Artists) is a rather fishy thriller about a sleek fiend (Don Ameche) who enlists the help of a fake psychiatrist (George Coulouris) to drive his wife (Claudette Colbert) to insanity and/or suicide. Claudette is rich and Ameche is crazy for a gold digger (Hazel Brooks). An eligible Bostonian (Robert Cummings) traps the villains after some narrow squeaks...
...confer but to propagandize. Marshall's words and tactics at the table made it clear that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians were not possible, and that fake negotiations, based on the myth of "the unanimity of the great powers," would prove a fatal trap for U.S. policy. Since Molotov was tougher and more plainly destructionist than he had to be, the Russian helped Marshall make his point...
...order to free himself from this encumbrance, the first step in this merciless attack [on open cities] had to be attributed to the enemy. This could be done only by staging a fake attack on an open German city. For this purpose Freiburg [was] particularly suitable...
...Telephone," a short, comic curtain-raiser, opens the evening lightly and pleasantly. "The Medium," on the other hand, is a complete musical-dramatic synthesis which absorbs its audiences as few plays or concerts ever could. The story is a fascinating study of a fake medium who goes mad when the spirits she produces mechanically for her seances begin to appear unasked. The opera in Menotti's hands and those of the Ballet Society is far more than the usual Metropolitan parade of dummies with voices; Menotti probes far into the characters of the degenerate medium, her mute servant and kind...