Word: jackets
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Lawrence Durrell, whose recent quartet of novels about Alexandria are as popular in upper Bohemia as clam dip, made the discovery in 1936 when at 24, he wrote The Black Book. This first novel is a glittering, exultant, outrageous act of self-indulgence, and the reader needs no dust-jacket exegesis to tell him that this is the work of a brilliant boy. Durrell raises up laments to the bleakness of life, bathes in scorn and sorrow the wretched creatures who must live it, sets down prose odes to the godawfulness of England. The outlook is determinedly fungoid...
...taut a ship as it should be. The reason may be that Director Duilio Coletti has paid too much attention to civilian foolishness, notably that of Prisoner Mylene Demongeot, a blonde who billows like the ocean and is so amply constructed that she cannot fasten her life jacket...
Come Dance with Me (Francis Cosne; Kingsley) concerns a dentist (the late Henri Vidal) who, during an important poker game, experiences a moment of tooth. Brigitte Bardot appears, leading her sore-jawed father. It is an emergency. Vidal puts on his white jacket, jams his mirror into the sufferer's mouth, then stares entranced at the filling-Brigitte's, naturally. Before long the toothache is even worse, but he, the handsome dog, and she, the pretty thing, are in love...
Desperate to eke out his income, Ginger enlists as a driver for a diaper service called Tiny Ones. He dons a battle jacket, military cap, sky-blue trousers and knee-length rubber boots, but the uniform of the diaper corps is not enough camouflage. Some home-town Dubliners spot him on his route and gleefully fire off letters to the old country reporting the comeuppance of proud Ginger Coffey...
...mugging for the cameras, are particularly proud of 18year-old Richard Velez, who got to Hollywood with Sally's help, made $2,100 in six weeks, came home with a contract, and rejoined the ranks on the West Side Story set wearing a Sunset Strip sports jacket, slacks (the boys call them "vines") and wrap-around sunglasses ("shades...