Word: onionskin
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...found an envelope in my mailbox containing two sheets of onionskin paper. The first sheet was an anonymous report on the arrest and confinement in a psychiatric hospital of Viktor Kuznetsov, an artist who had helped draft a model constitution for our country, which the authors hoped would spark discussion about the introduction of democracy...
...oblivion. His existence as a writer literally lay underground. In order to hide his work from the police, he buried two novels, One Day and The First Circle, two plays, a movie scenario and 12,000 lines of verse. All had been typed, single-spaced, on both sides of onionskin paper for easier concealment. These fragile manuscripts were what Solzhenitsyn called his "divisions" and "army corps" that would soon lay siege to the Kremlin...
Soon millions of Soviet citizens will also be informed. Next week Radio Liberty will start broadcasting to the U.S.S.R. the entire text of Gulag in Russian, and, later, extracts will be beamed in 17 other Soviet languages. Moreover, the 606-page paperback Russian-language edition, printed in Paris on onionskin paper, and only %½ in. thick, could pass unnoticed through Soviet customs in the vest pockets of Western travelers...
...myth of Director Mike Nichols, invulnerable up to now, has been that he could bust a comic rib with an onionskin script, but The Apple Tree is too thin for even his nimble touch. While Barbara Harris is as saucily mocking as ever, it becomes clearer with each performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written...
Psychic Fix. Mickey, in fact, did everything for real. Every Mike Hammer story has a blonde viking in it. The one in this picture is Britain's Shirley Eaton, a tall taffy goddess like the girl Hammer once shot in the navel. She wears onionskin bikinis. In the first take of a passionate scene, Mickey and Shirley were stretched out on a couch when something went wrong with the lighting. "Cut," said the director. Not Mickey. "We stayed there rehearsing for an hour while they changed the lights," he remembers. "That was Method acting, boy. The Spillane method...