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Fanatic or not, there is no doubt that Dali can turn it on with words as well as paint. Writes he of the kitchen in his boyhood home: "Behind the partly open kitchen door I would hear the scurrying of those bestial women with red hands; I would catch glimpses of their heavy rumps and their hair straggling like manes; and out of the heat and confusion that rose from the conglomeration of sweaty women, scattered grapes, boiling oil, fur plucked from rabbits' armpits, scissors spattered with mayonnaise, kidneys, and the warble of canaries-out of that whole conglomeration...
...next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into his garden where often the Black Dragon functionaries would gather. The police who "protected" his place often came to eat in our kitchen when they wanted foreign-style cookies or rare coffee...
...young English society woman, Diana discovers a corpse (her husband's) in her study. A luckless American gambler (Brian Donlevy), who had dropped in to forage in her kitchen, obligingly helps her jettison the body in a remote telephone booth. But the corpse turns up again in the study next morning. After this, nothing is very surprising, including Diana's and Brian's escape in a stolen car and their encounter with a nest of Nazi conspirators in a Scottish castle. The Scottish proceedings end where they sometimes seem to have begun-in a distillery...
Author Rich lives in the wilds with Husband Ralph, Son Rufus and various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...
...development built to house Kearny shipyard workers, which the Senate's Truman Committee has been investigating. Started in June 1941, the project will cost nearly $4,500,000 v. initial estimates of $3,200,000, is now only half rented because cellars flooded, roofs caved in, floors buckled, kitchen and plumbing equipment failed to turn up, doors "not operating" needed refitting, porches sagged, and -in some cases-furnaces were so installed that heating pipes blocked basement entrances...