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...subconsciously loves Alfred's trust fund about as much as she does Alfred. Eaton shortly abandons the sky for "The Street" (Wall) and later bars Mary from his bed but not board after she has an affair with an ambisextrous psychoanalyst. Alfred in turn is smitten with a nacreous 22-year-old named Natalie, and thus begins a 16-year-old triangle that develops many more than three angles. The secrets of the bedroom have always been the worst-kept secrets in O'Hara's novels, and the pages of Terrace are crammed with knowing sinnuendo...
Boschesque crustaceans of his hermetic imagination to caress the tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." Yet he can go from there to a superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush...
Married. Merle Oberon. 34, nacreous, slant-eyed cinemactress ; and Lucien Keith Ballard, 37, Hollywood cameraman; both for the second time; by double, proxy in Juarez, Mexico...
Born. To Hedy Lamarr, 30, nacreous, thrice-wed cinema beauty; and John Loder, 47, tweedy British cinemactor and onetime pal of the Duke of Windsor: their (and her) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Denise. Weight...
...waking hours of Lady in the Dark are sleek and engaging, with plenty of highly varnished dialogue and playing. Editor Elliott's dreams and the flashbacks to her youth come in every color of the rainbow and a few besides. She dreams (amid dry-ice mist and nacreous space) of getting a magnificent blue dress in which Mr. Milland paints her portrait-a cruel caricature of her old-maidishness. She dreams (in white and gold) of climbing a gigantic wedding cake while vast choirs shout her praises. She dreams (in candy colors) of a circus which turns into...