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...Reliance on ritual is a characteristic of the childish mentality: every cigarette lighting, tie knotting, or tea drinking is a ritual to the Glasses. The temple is the bathroom (which serves as a set for the major portion of the story "Zooey"), and gospel is scrawled on the mirror with old bits of soap...
...also provides his generals with ladies. In one collage, Dressed Woman, a star-shaped collar of jet beads crowns a pompon fringe gathered around a rosette that might represent a nose. Look into My Eyes is a funny felt face with cut-glass-mirror eyes, a rose for a nose...
...Stack (Eliot Ness) attributes her success to the fact that as an actress "she knows when some thing would feel uncomfortable on a performer." She is also famed for her "glue," her ability to link scenes smoothly, as when the distorted image of a gangster in a funhouse mirror gives way in an eyeblink to a beautiful girl looking in a mirror at a new fur wrap. She rules more by sex appeal than by fiat. "Can we try it this way, darling," she will murmur, "or would you hate me for that, sweetheart?" Or, as she adjusts the plastic...
...last year, while in Japan, Tebaldi looked in the mirror and was appalled by what she saw. Her late mother was no longer at her side to tempt her with plates of pasta, so she promptly went on a diet. She hired two Japanese masseuses, who pounded away at her for an hour and a half every day, and she dropped 24 Ibs. in six months and dyed her hair red. When she returned to the Metropolitan Opera last week after an absence of a year, she decided that having refurbished her form, she would also refurbish...
Patiently, Kaoru ground and polished an eight-inch parabolic mirror. He made a tube out of tin plate. The whole instrument cost him only $20. At first it did not work very well, as is usually the case with home-made telescopes. But Kaoru repeatedly took it apart to reduce its faults...