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Austria's Romy Schneider wants to be a jade too. She is only 24. She has a neat little nose, powder-blue eyes, and a pixy grin. She is real real cute. "God, I hate that word," she says. For years, she was repeatedly cast in German films more or less as Shirley Tempelhof, the cardboard princess. Determinedly, she has changed all that. Last week in London, dressed in tights and high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights...
...legs to stick out of." Nothing quite so simple swivels heads in the streets; nor is the straight shift likely to turn strong men helpless after one swift glance. But to the thousands of American women who are just not quite ready yet for chartreuse face powder or the octagon look, the shift is a welcome and comfortable trend to latch...
Turns, anyone? At this point, indeed, many customers will be tempted to take a powder. But those who can stomach Bette's cooking-on another occasion she serves a salad of unplucked parakeet-will be amply rewarded by the horror of her company. In what may well be the year's scariest, funniest and most sophisticated chiller, she gives a performance that cannot be called great acting but is certainly grand guignol. And Joan effectively plays the bitch to Bette's witch...
...Winston Churchills carrying just one evening dress, two day dresses, one suit and a few blouses. She could delightedly entertain the King and Queen at Hyde Park with a hot dog and mustard picnic-that was real Americanism. She knew she was homely, so she scorned lipstick and powder, always considered comb and hairbrush sufficient...
Jettisoned Cargo. The white man did not invent slavery. For centuries the tribes along the Guinea coast (the 4,000 miles of West African coastline stretching from present-day Mali to Angola) had made slaves of one another. But the insatiable European slavers, trading in guns, powder and rum, set off an ever-widening wave of violence. Rival tribes raided incessantly and reached out into the interior for fresh supplies of victims...